Houston native moves past homelessness to find success on Broadway

A Texas native turned Broadway star did something good to support a Dallas nonprofit that helps the unhoused and those at risk of poverty.

Hailee Kaleem Wright knows that struggle because she’s lived that life.

“It’s something that, for me, it just kind of happened, and we had to band together. Me and my family had to band together to figure out how we were going to get through the hard times. And, I just, I find myself in this very moment just being like, I can feel how far I’ve come, and it’s from programs like this that we were able to get to that helped get me out, and so I’m so grateful for that,” Wright told NBC 5…

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