Although Nana’s eye disease has worsened, her life is pressing forward. She will soon graduate from high school and plans to enroll as a psychology major at Borough of Manhattan Community College. She wants to work with children of trauma. “Unfortunately, I was a kid who had no one to advocate for me,” says Nana, who has come to regard her childhood as dysfunctional. “I want to help children and teens who are a product of their environment. Why should other kids have to start way behind in the race of life because of things they couldn’t control or never learned how to control?”
