Samuel Acevedo
Cognoscenti contributor
Samuel Acevedo, is the executive director of the Boston Higher Education Resource Center (HERC), serves as a co-chair of the Boston School Committee’s opportunity and achievement gap task force, and also serves on Boston’s COVID-19 health inequities task force. Trained as a lawyer, he is the first in his family to go to college.
Recently published
Let's Give Boston's Graduates A Real Graduation. They've Earned It, And We All Need It
High school graduation has near-mystical significance for first-generation graduates especially, writes Samuel Acevedo. Earning a diploma is a triumph that transforms their lives, and the lives of the next generation.