First-gen students at elite colleges go from lonely and overwhelmed to empowered and provoking change

“In February 2015, I arrived on a snowy Brown University campus for the first 1vyG conference. 1vyG is shorthand for inter-Ivy first-generation college student network. It was born of late night talk among three students who felt, as one put it, that Brown ‘didn’t expect us, people like us, to be here.’”