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• College and Career Mentoring Program: A Mentee’s Perspective

  By Freidricka Camille, College and Career Mentoring Program Coordinator and Hawra A., Current Mentee

  Photo Courtesy of Freidricka Camille

  Happy National Mentoring Month!!! Every year in January, I look forward to reflecting on the positive impact that mentors have had in my life. I recall being in high school and broadening my perspective on issues outside of the influence of my parents. I also

• How Mentors Impact Lives

  By Vi Bui, Youth Mentoring & Volunteer Programs Coordinator Photos Courtesy of AALEAD Staff The end of National Mentoring Month (aka January) marks 11 months that I have worked at AALEAD as the Youth Mentoring & Volunteer Programs Coordinator and over the course of this year I have learned so much about the importance of mentors in the Asian Pacific American community. Here are just a few ways mentors impact lives.

  1. Mentors support their mentees in pursuing new

  2. 5 Questions for AALEAD’s Mentor of the Year Nominee

     By Stephanie T., Current AALEAD Mentor Photo Courtesy of Stephanie T.
     Every year AALEAD has a chance to nominate one of our mentors for the Mentoring Matters Coalition Mentor of the Year Award. This year we have nominated one of our Youth Mentors, Stephanie T., who has demonstrated that mentoring can go beyond a formal relationship between an adult and a young person to become a close sisterh