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Alyza Sebenius, The Atlantic: Education
Wed, 01/13/2016 - 12:47pm

The Importance of High-School Mentors

The "Dream Director" Jessica Valoris mentors students at a struggling Washington, D.C., school. Daniel Lombroso / The Atlantic In her job as a “dream director,” Jessica Valoris is tasked with unleashing the potential of disadvantaged students at an inner-city high school in Washington, D.C. Her employer, a New York-based nonprofit called The Future Project, embeds mentors like Valoris in public schools, characterizing her role as a “midwife of dreams” and “warrior of possibility.” The Atlantic’s video team has documented the power that mentors like Valoris can have at a defining juncture in the lives of disadvantaged young people: high school.

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