When Stephen Wilson Jr was a kid, he’d often hear what he couldn’t do. Even his late father told him, “You’re a poor kid. Rich kids go to college. You’re not rich.”
He still remembers the night he left for university: “I’d been packing my bags for weeks, getting ready, and I woke my dad up to say, ‘I’m leaving.’ He asked me, ‘Where are you going?’ ‘College, Dad, I’ve been talking about it for weeks – for a year, really.’ And that was the moment it actually sank in for him that I’d done it. To him, it wasn’t possible for someone like us to be in college.”
