From the Washington Post In 2012, Moses Ingram, then a freshman at Baltimore City Community College, sat down with a student adviser and shared her goal. She wanted to be an actor.
The adviser picked out a thick book of professions, plunked it in front of her and told her to “pick something,” Ingram said.
As she stormed away, Ingram considered dropping out. But before she left the building, she walked into another adviser’s office. Ingram steeled herself for another brush off. But Nana Gyesie, (a 2001 MSW graduate of the University of Maryland School of Social Work) had a different message: He was there to nurture.
“He never minimized my dreams. He dreamed with me. About everything my dreams could be. And then he brought it down to layman’s terms and was like, ‘Let’s come up with a plan to get you where you want to be.’ And that’s what we did,” Ingram said.