“Thanks so much for your generosity with our students during your visit to NCDS last week. I am so grateful for your candid responses during the student panel and at the middle school affinity lunch. Your message to our students that they should “stand tall by going deep” is one that I think many of our students of color in particular needed to hear. Thank you for validating their experience and sharing your wisdom... My students have been buzzing about Liliana and I am so grateful for your time with them.”

“Jenn DeLeon provided an engaging and inspirational workshop for Boston Latin Academy juniors entitled, ‘Jumpstart Your College Essay’… We plan to make this an annual event for our juniors. In the words of one student, ‘The workshop was awesome! Jenn was so amazing! We never write like that…and now we know that we can!”

"Jennifer provided an engaging space for our METCO students to reflect on how their realities parallel the experience they read about tin the book. She can connect with a younger audience and has a great virtual presents... Students are appreciative of having a book that closely represents their experiences."

"Jennifer’s point about not letting a narrative, large or small, be the final story, if it isn’t the way you want that story to end, resonated with all of us who heard her at Labouré…When Jennifer told us about how her first piece for Ms. Magazine came about only after much difficulty and great persistence, I am sure our students were nodding their heads in agreement as they pondered meeting thresholds in their professional programs, even while the pressures in their lives raised those thresholds higher and higher.”

“[Jenn’s] conversation with us was truly amazing! She is such a great storyteller and students were captivated by her openness and unapologetically naming the systems that impacted her educational trajectory.”

“She did a phenomenal job! Very engaging and got positive feedback from attendees.”