Rebecca Koenig

Adults encourage teenagers who may struggle to afford college to consider alternative routes to adulthood — often specifically to a solid paycheck. But young people want more than good livelihoods. They want good lives.

Swashbuckling into an acting career, shielded by a college degree.

How a ‘mom-student’ created a community to help her stay — and succeed — in college.

“I’ve never seen an administration, a staff, an agency so supportive of programming for its incarcerated residents. I think they’re a model of what corrections officials around the country should be.”