Nicole Johnson

Category: Feature

  • What’s so ‘smart’ about Smart transcripts?

    The stressful life of waking up at the crack of dawn every day to defend American freedom may be never-ending for some military personnel, but for others it is no longer a requirement. The hope of going to school after a term of service was an anticipated reality until recently.…

  • Emphasis on one woman

    Sherri Patton didn’t have a clue about what she wanted to do with her life when she dropped out of college.  She later realized that her passion was to be in a classroom helping mold minds. “I floundered around a lot as a young person,” says Patton, now a City…

  • Pulitzer-prize winning author speaks to City College

    The LA Times reporter was dedicated to tell stories of the poor and undocumented immigrants from South America when she spoke to nearly 200 students and faculty who gathered in the Student Center. Nazario spent more than 20 years writing as a reporter and has spoken to a variety of…

  • Courage to change

    City College graduate Holly Bloesser hit rock bottom before coming up for air to realize that life wasn’t just fun and games. Five years ago, Bloesser was pregnant, addicted to drugs and homeless. When she became a resident at Sacramento Emergency Housing’s Mather Community Campus, Bloesser began to look for…