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...Woo coordinated a literacy program for students in kindergarten through eighth grade at a public school in Roxbury for Americorps to beef up her employment history...
...year and a half after Amarrah was born, Woo’s boyfriend was arrested for domestic abuse and assault with a deadly weapon—he had thrown a changing table at Woo and her daughter after a fight, Woo said. The case was dismissed short of conviction, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office...
Destitute, Woo began to look to education as a means to escape...
...were pretty much on the brink of homelessness for quite awhile there until I had gotten on welfare, gotten on foodstamps, and signed myself on for a year in Americorps,” Woo said...
After her year with Americorps, Woo, then 21, began taking the train from her Lexington apartment to Bunker Hill Community College, using funding from One Family Scholars, which provides homeless or formerly homeless women with scholarships to use education as a path out of poverty...