After spending time in foster care and then living homeless, I enrolled at Harvard during the peak of the Occupy movement, a time when protesters camped out at picturesque spots around the Yard. Although economic inequality had defined my adolescence, I felt excluded from the conversation; I didn’t even understand the vocabulary. If anything, it seemed that living through the inequities my prep-school peers condemned had rendered me somehow less qualified to speak about them.
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