Nicole Johnson

Category: Profiles

  • 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…

  • Kathy Fong has an itch to pitch

    All it took was a swift swing of a bat, and the ball flew into the unknown as the batter ran toward first base. The dirt on the bottom of her shoes blew every which way like a sandstorm in the desert. City College social science major Kathy Fong pitches…

  • 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…