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Liz has shared the stage with world
leaders like Mikhail Gorbachev and the
Dalai Lama as an international speaker.
It's hard to believe that at the age of 16
she was homeless and sleeping on park
benches and underground trains! Liz's
parents were drug addicts and couldn't look after
her and her sister. She says, "We ate ice cubes because it felt like
eating. We split a tube of toothpaste between us for dinner." When their
mother died, their father moved to a homeless shelter and Liz and her
sister were out on the streets of New York. At this point, Liz decided to
try to turn her life around. She went back to school and through
dedication and determination, she eventually won a scholarship to a top
university. Since Liz graduated from Harvard in 2009, she has been
speaking at events to teenagers about staying away from drugs and
gangs. She wants them to understand that they can reach their goals,
whatever they have had to face in their lives.