As a doctoral student in Teaching and Learning in the College of Education, I often reflect on how I reached this point in my education. And those who know more about me and my upbringing sometimes ask, with emphasis, how did you reach this point in your education? My academic achievement is punctuated by a series of alphabetic abbreviations. BA. BA. MA. MFA. PhD. All along, though, I have been acutely aware that my background is not common among my peers. According to the most recent survey conducted by the National Center of Science and Engineering Statistics, only 14.9% of doctoral recipients’ parents hold a maximum educational attainment of high school. Estimates for undergraduate degree attainment for children raised in poverty usually don’t exceed 25%. Given that only about 2% of the general population holds doctoral degrees, the subsection of those degree holders who were raised in poverty must certainly be infinitesimal.