“Teach Me To Read.” Impact Edition

Sandra Bermudez sees the kids she works with through a parent’s eyes. As founder and CEO of The Lucy Project, a literacy education nonprofit named after her daughter, Sandra knows the bewilderment that comes with a learning disability diagnosis or a less-than-satisfactory progress report. For Lucy, these problems began to bubble up in kindergarten.

“I would catch her doing extra homework in the bathroom,” Sandra says. “She realized she wasn’t moving as fast as other kids. Her self-esteem started taking a hit. Our very happy-go-lucky child suddenly didn’t want to go to school.”

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