my friend Tiny Gray-Garcia

[staceydiane]

I wanted to give a good friend of mine a big shout-out.  Her name is Tiny and she is the Director and Co-Founder of POOR Magazine.  She's kind of a legend in the SF Bay Area activist community.  She is also the author of several books and she co-founded a homeschool co-op/alternative school.

Anyway, she only got through the eighth grade because her social worker mother became disabled.  Tiny became her caregiver.

Tiny is in the MFA program at Goddard College without a high school diploma or BA!  She was one of my inspirations to go back to school and get a college degree.  There is always a way, y'all, with some creative thinking and strategizing.