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CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–July 30, 2015. Clarissa Nickerson Fourman overcame incredible obstacles in order to graduate from Roosevelt University’s online Bachelor in Professional Studies degree program in 2012.
A ward of the state of Illinois for much of her life, she moved from foster home to foster home as a child in the Champaign-Urbana and Bloomington, Ill. area. Dropping out of school at age 15, she spent most of her teenaged and young-adult…
