Sierra Morrison remembers the first time she stepped onto the campus of Clark Atlanta University. She traveled from her Minneapolis high school to tour colleges, and something just felt right about the Georgia HBCU.
“Just being in Atlanta and seeing so many people that look like me, in so many different spaces, spaces that I wanted to be in,” Morrison recalled. “The culture was what drove me here. I knew it was the one when I first toured it.”
Clark Atlanta, she said, was her dream school, where she would receive her undergraduate degree in criminal justice in 2021 and then go on to pursue her master’s in social work…