scholarship by Patrick Kampert
Chicago's Own
Advice and support from her family have helped Ebone Porch become a member of the Class of 2013
E growing pains. But in fact, her aim is to face
her past head on. "Eventually, I'd like to open a clinic in Englewood and give back to the community," Porch says. "I know what it's like to be raised in pov- erty and without health care." Porch has been a volunteer in
the juvenile court system, where she counseled troubled teens and wards of the state. Years ago, though, she passed through those same doors in a tumultu- ous adolescence that included a brush with the law. "That was a big motiva- tion for me back then. I knew I didn't want to come back to that," she says. "I do not feel that I would be where I am right now—academically, spiritually or
NGLEWOOD IS ONE OF CHICA- GO'S TOUGHEST NEIGHBORHOODS, and one could understand if Ebone Porch, a first-year medical student at the Chicago campus, never again wanted to set foot on the streets where she experienced so many
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