Associate editor Julie Polter interviews Cassandra Bixler and LaToya Brown, both first-generation college students, about their experiences being the first family member to attend college.
Cassandra Bixler, 26, Washington, D.C.
LaToya Brown, 24, New Haven, Connecticut.
This appears in the September/October 2010 issue of Sojourners
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