"As long as she can remember, Khadijah has floated from shelters to motels to armories along the West Coast with her mother. She has attended 12 schools in 12 years; lived out of garbage bags among pimps, prostitutes and drug dealers. Every morning, she upheld her dignity, making sure she didn't smell or look disheveled."
At age 18, Khadijah found a place to call home: Harvard. Khadijah is not the first homeless person to enroll at Harvard. Liz Murray's story became a Lifetime movie From Homeless To Harvard. Yeah, I am a bit behind finding out about this movie, but I was en-route to street living when it aired in 2003.
Link to Liz's story at Lifetime did not open: www.mylifetime.com/movies/homeless-harvard-liz-murray-story.
As near as I can determine, Murray is employed by the Washington Speaker's Bureau, traveling to give motivational speeches. http://www.washingtonspeakers.com/speakers/speaker.cfm?SpeakerId=3821
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