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Thomas Nazario Highlight
Nobody ever told me as a kid that I could really amount to much at all.
About Thomas
- He grew up in Spanish Harlem, a ghetto in New York City.
- One Thanksgiving, he saw a woman going through a garbage can with her daughter-that was their Thanksgiving dinner.
- He realized that the planet wasn't as good as he'd thought it was, and he resolved to work to improve it.
- His family raised him as a Spanish speaker, and he also struggled with dyslexia, so school was hard for him.
- Finally he met a mentor that helped him out, and he was able to start excelling.
- Says that without that mentor, he might not have succeeded; says that society tells kids of color that they won't amount to much.
- Because of that, he's focused his law work on children's rights, especially on children in third-world countries.
- Says he gets frustrated because people who have the capacity to do so much good for the world often do nothing.
