De’Shan Jones: An Inspiration of What Is Possible

DOWNLOAD ARTICLE November 2016 By Laurence Kaldor, President of the VCLF FOUR YEARS AGO, DE’SHAN Jones, then 15, didn’t think much of school. “I don’t know how I graduated eighth grade, but I did,” he remembers. “Going into high school, my mindset was ‘I’m just going...