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Eugene Young
“It’s good to know that you have someone looking out for you and encouraging you to go to college,” says Ponzo-Meek. “Not everyone is as fortunate to have that.” Ponzo-Meek joined the group in eighth grade and has maintained a relationship with the co-founders.
It was Delaware Elite that drove
Young to Wilmington University. But it was his desire to learn how to serve better the young men that acted as the impetus for earning his master’s in Public Administration in 2011 from WilmU’s College of Social and Behavioral Health.
“Wilmington University did a great job by providing amazing
professors that were helpful (regard- ing my) personal progression,” says Young. “I was able to establish amazing, fruitful relationships (while) learning and meeting like-minded people.”
During that time Young worked in the Delaware General Assembly
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