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Why I’m Joining DelawareCAN as Executive Director

A few weeks ago, I met the wife of a childhood friend who had recently relocated back to Delaware. We were discussing her experience with relocating and she said that she kept getting asked the strangest question: “Where did you go to school?” The strange part was the realization that people didn’t mean college. They meant where she had attended high school. What was equally as odd was the value that people put on the answer to this question. She said it was almost as if they felt defined by those two decades before adulthood.