Department of Education to help prepare high school students from low-income families for college. Upward Bound is a national program run by the U.S. After a recommendation from a friend, Pemberton discovered the Upward Bound program, which he said greatly helped him in his journey to Chestnut Hill. Pemberton said his response was simply, “What’s college?”Īfter constantly adapting to different home environments, he had no idea what life could look like after high school. Pemberton, who grew up in New Bedford, Mass., discovered Boston College in the seventh grade when his guidance counselor handed him a brochure and suggested he look into it. Today, he is the chief human resources officer for the Dublin-based software company Workhuman, a bestselling author, sought-after speaker, youth advocate, husband, and the father of three. “You never want to have your fate and/or your destiny resting in somebody else’s hands like that,” Pemberton, BC ’89, said. Pemberton said he learned many lessons from his experience in the foster care system, which he describes in his novel A Chance in the World: An Orphan Boy, A Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home. Instead, Pemberton went through many foster homes and eventually lived with a family who abused him mentally and physically for 13 years. At 3 years old, Steve Pemberton was taken from his alcoholic mother and placed into the foster care system.
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