On Sunday August 7th the NYT took out a full page ad extolling the virtues of City College, and on this page was a picture of Michelle Obama and the salutatorian of City College, Orubba Almansoouri. After this young woman spoke, she was invited to a Woman's Summit at the White House. I wrote about her in a previous blog entry; she is a model for women around the world since, as she herself said, she was not supposed to be here. From a small village in Yemen, her father's dream for her was a marriage at age fourteen, but Orubba did not see herself getting"a doctorate in a kitchen." She dreamed outside the box of her culture to demand a college education, and now she is Masters and PhD bound. She said, "What I was used to seeing as endless walls just became obstacles that I had to learn to break down or climb." She did both, and in doing so inspired many of the girls within her family to pursue higher learning and discover dreams for themselves.
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