Brooke Evans' is a first generation student at UW-Madison and has lived in her car for most of her undergraduate career. Brooke recalls many painful memories about being homeless and hiding it from fellow students, while putting a widespread issue of poverty and working class students into light.

Brooke Evans is an undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin Madison and a research scholar at the Ronald McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program.

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