Too many people in leadership positions are merely pretending to be leaders while the real leaders among us go unheralded. Oral Lee Brown deserves our recognition and respect. One of 12 children born into poverty in Mississippi, Brown relocated to Oakland, earned a college degree and started a career as a real estate agent. One day in 1987, she visited a first-grade class in Oakland. In the spur of the moment, she told those 23 students from extremely difficult backgrounds that she would somehow find a way to pay for their college educations if they got good grades and stayed out of trouble. Well, thanks to Oral Lee, almost all of these students have now graduated college.
Learn more about Oral Lee's foundation at http://www.oralleebrownfoundation.org/
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