Dariel Vasquez ’17 Featured on the Today Show, Speaking about Brothers@ and the Importance of Mentorship

Bard alumnus Dariel Vasquez ’17 appeared on the Today Show, speaking to the importance of peer mentoring and how it changed his life as a teenager. Now he’s paying it forward with Brothers@, a program he cofounded as a Bard student to support young men of color in high school and through college. In Vasquez’s experience, small acts of support and educational investment can make an outsized impact on a student’s trajectory. “It’s a story of making sure that we remember to always take chances on our young people and believe in them,” says Vasquez. “The adults in my life audaciously believed in me and took a chance on me and my future.”

Post Date: 03-22-2023