One Million Degrees
Desiree Salinas is currently serving as a Summer Assistant Foundation at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago since June 2024, and is a Scholar with One Million Degrees since March 2023. Previous experience includes positions at City Colleges of Chicago-Harold Washington College in the Wellness Center and Office of the President from January 2023 to March 2024, an Internship at Depaul USA from December 2022 to April 2023, and coaching at Girls in the Game from November 2022 to February 2023. Desiree began a career in the beauty industry at Douglas J Aveda Institutes & Salons from December 2020 to May 2021, focusing on client services and customer care. Education includes ongoing studies at City Colleges of Chicago-Harold Washington College and Douglas J Aveda, alongside a High School Diploma from IHSCA Charter High School obtained in 2016.
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One Million Degrees
One Million Degrees empowers low-income, highly motivated community college students to succeed in school, in work, and in life. Community college students are among the most important yet least supported of this country's undergraduate population. Community colleges offer pathways to meaningful careers and, often, an on-ramp to four-year universities. Yet, lacking critical resources, most students never graduate. It is stunning how little is available to this vital and vibrant group of students. One Million Degrees changes the odds entirely. Our groundbreaking program – innovative, personalized, uniquely effective – delivers the kind of meaningful support that is transforming lives and creating a pattern of positive change that will echo for generations. This is what works.