Nicole Lynn Lewis is a social entrepreneur and founder of the nonprofit Generation Hope. As a teen mother, she put herself through the College of William & Mary, starting as a freshman when her daughter was just three months old. She has since earned a Master of Public Policy and an honorary doctorate from Trinity Washington University. She has been named a CNN Hero and won the Roslyn S. Jaffe Award. She has appeared on CNN, NBC Nightly News, Good Morning America, and many others, and her journey has been covered in The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, TeenVogue, The Chronicle for Higher Education, and others.