We asked some of the brightest folks from within the community to reflect back on their days in school and to share with us a story of when they learned a particularly important or impactful lesson. We’ve shared highlights below.

Suze Velv Genereux

The most Important and impactful school and life lessons I learned, was while I was away at Stoneleigh-Burnham School, in the early 1980’s. It was there, at age 16 that I started my fashion entrepreneurial ambitions at “SBS” an all-girl’s prep boarding school located in Greenfield, MA. Read more>>

Rui Wang

One of the most impactful lessons I learned came during my time at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), where I pursued my Master of Fine Arts in Advertising. Read more>>

Shawn Keim

Being into photography all through high school, and then going off to college, even though it was just community college, really opened up my eyes to the amount of people that thought they knew everything. Read more>>

Tameir Moore

I think the biggest lesson that I took from college was teaching me how to be adaptable in life, but most importantly, how life will throw situations at you that you think you’re not ready for or you think you can’t handle and it showed me in my experiences at ASU That I can handle anything life throws my way. Read more>>