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Chaunté Lowe, an alumna of the School of Economics (BS '08), was featured in “The Olympics are the End of a Track From Poverty" for The New York Times.
Excerpt:
As she tells it to me, the memory sounds like a home movie in a childhood rich in joy.
Her mom had gone to work, and Chaunté Lowe and her sisters, little girls all, pulled the mattresses into the living room and put on the Kris Kross hit “Jump.” The girls jumped and touched the ceiling. Chaunté landed on the floor. She leapt from the hardwood and still touched the ceiling.
“I thought to myself: Wow! You have a gift!”
For the full article, read here.
