When Veranda Rodgers got pregnant as a teenager, her life could have gone in the direction most do in that situation: poverty and struggle and dreams of a better future dashed.
But she didn’t want what for herself and she doesn’t want that for other young women dealing with pregnancy at an inopportune point in their lives. So when she managed to climb her way out of the seemingly inevitable hole such a pregnancy can put women in, she launched a nonprofit, the Pregnant With Possibilities Resource Center, in 2015 to lend a hand and pull others up behind her.