Liz Murray, a 2009 Harvard graduate, completed high school and won a New York Times scholarship while homeless. She is the founder and director of Manifest Trainings and works with the nonprofit organization Blessings in a Backpack.
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Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and lice-infested hair, eventually skipping so many classes that she was put into a girls' home. At age fifteen, Liz found herself on th... SEE MORE