Maurquez Thompson, an incoming senior at Stanford University, is assembling a college access initiative to assist students from Brainerd High School and The Howard School in Chattanooga.
The 21-year-old Chattanooga native is a 2023 graduate and co-valedictorian of Hamilton Brainerd High School and has roots in the Howard school, where his father attended.
As the youngest of 10 children, Thompson said his parents taught him the importance of education and the importance of being “relentless in all our pursuits.”…