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Adult Ed: Ri’Keishia Seward
October 27, 2023
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Adult Education, Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools
Ri'Keishia Seward is a learner and student with HCCTS California Innovative Career Academy. Focused, persistent, and bright are just a few words to best describe her. She enrolled in Highlands Community Charter in July 2022 with transfer credits and has since added an impressive 35 credits to her academic record.
Ri'Keishia faced a number of challenges as a teenager, including helping to parent her younger siblings and becoming pregnant at the age of 16. She was forced to drop out of school, overwhelmed with raising her brothers and now a son of her own. By age 19, through hard work and family support, she was able to secure her first apartment, but the thought of completing her high school education lingered.
Over the years, she worked unfavorable jobs to support her now two sons, brothers and herself. She deferred her hopes of completing school to ensure her sons graduated from high school. Her efforts paid off and she watched her sons graduate and secure employment. She then decided it was her turn.
Ri’Keishia is looking forward to pursuing a career as a Medical Assistant/CNA.
A high school diploma/CTE program, “will give me something to be proud of, a personal accomplishment; as well as show my children that we never give up on our hopes, dreams or ourselves.”
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Adult Education honoree Ri’Keishia Seward.
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Adult Education honoree Ri’Keishia Seward.