Formerly homeless student heads to college with fashion dreams

Mar’quaile Ferdinand is preparing for college with a passion for fashion design and a resilience forged through years of housing insecurity.

The recent Metro Nashville Public Schools graduate spent his high school years without a stable home, often walking the streets at night with nowhere to go.

“All four years of high school, I’ve never really had a home because I was getting kicked out every day, every week,” Ferdinand said. “I would literally stay out, literally walk out all night.”…

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