Student Parent

Nicole Lynn Lewis is a social entrepreneur, the author of Pregnant Girl, and the founder of the nonprofit Generation Hope. As a teen mother, she put herself through the College of William & Mary, starting as a freshman when her daughter was just three months old. She has since earned a masters in public policy and honorary degrees from Trinity Washington University and Montgomery College. Her work has earned her a great deal of public recognition, including being named a CNN Hero and winning the Roslyn S. Jaffe Award. She has appeared on CNN, NBC Nightly News, Good Morning America, and many others, and her journey has been covered in the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, Teen Vogue, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and others.