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Jacksonville
Alumni
Malcolm Smith: Defying Expectations to Achieve Success
How Malcolm turned negative words into positive outcomes
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Rhode Island
Alumni
It Takes a Village: Karina Tapia
How this student was able to balance personal growth and motherhood with help from Year Up United.
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Bay Area
Alumni
Christian Rubio: A Winning Recipe for Career Success
Christian, who works as an Associate Insights Analyst at LinkedIn, finds creative parallels between cooking and coding.
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Greater Atlanta
Staff
Paola Garcia: A Passion for Inclusion
How Paola’s Firsthand Experience Shaped Her Career at Year Up
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Share your remote-work success story: Slack & Year Up
Year Up is proud to partner with Slack to enable the future of remote work.
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Dallas / Fort Worth
Alumni
The Power of Vulnerability: Daniel Silva
How this Year Up United graduate went from barely making ends meet to a Corporate America career.
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