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Rikyah Wright is not your average 17 year old. Given what she’s accomplished already and her interest in sports, you can say she’s ahead of the game.
Rikyah Wright is not your average 17 year old. Given what she’s accomplished already and her interest in sports, you can say she’s ahead of the game.
After graduating early from Kenwood Academy in May of 2017, Rikyah headed to Harold Washington College. The transition was pretty seamless, partly because Rikyah while in high school was taking college classes with City Colleges (at Harold Washington) and took AP classes while at Kenwood. She was a dual enrollment-dual credit student, so when she entered Harold Washington in Fall 2017, she already had a semester’s worth of college credit. This dual enrollment/dual credit experience helped her determine a course of study, while her status as a Star Scholar provides her with financial support beyond what her financial aid covers. She’s also a Harold Washington College Student Government Association Senator and a work study student.
Update: After majoring in business at Harold Washington, Rikyah is set on a career in sports management. She transferred to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and plans on graduating in the spring of 2020.
Maria had been a cosmetologist for eight years when she decided she was ready for a career change. Knowing she wanted to study IT, the Humboldt Park native headed to Wright College.
Overcoming addiction and homelessness herself, Maria Trujillo knew she wanted to be able to help the people in her community. Now studying at Wright College to earn her associate degree, Maria started her higher education path by getting certificates in medical administrative assistance and in addiction studies.
