The ‘Un-Becoming’: a Former L.A. Gang Member Finds His Resurrection Tale at UC Berkeley
Los Angeles Times“It’s exceedingly difficult to share the kind of success story profiled here without implying that others should (1) be able to similarly pull themselves up by their bootstraps, and (2) leave their communities and all of who they were before behind. Jim Rainey does just that by shining a light on the institutional support his protagonist required and by including the following quote: ‘Kept his grades high & his car low.’” -Gail Cornwall