When my phone rang during my senior year of high school, it was Florida Atlantic University calling. I didn’t know that answering would change the trajectory of my life. I had 48 hours to decide whether to take a chance on an opportunity that seemed too good to be true: the opportunity to graduate debt-free.
Since I was 11, I dreamed of attending a historically Black college or university. That dream started at Morgan State University in Baltimore, where I spent two weeks each summer in a program focused on leadership and academics. For a preteen growing up in Baltimore City, Morgan felt like another world. I had seen drug
Before launching The Savvy Couple in 2016, Kelan Kline had reached a breaking point. He and his wife, Brittany, had recently married, bought a starter home, and begun paying down roughly $40,000 in student loans. Brittany was an elementary school teacher, while Kelan worked as a jail deputy. The couple, who grew up in Rochester,
