Eckerd College Announces Bestselling Author and Child Welfare Advocate Ashley Rhodes-Courter '08 as 61st Commencement Speaker
March 29, 2024
March 29, 2024
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, March 29 -- Eckerd College issued the following news:
By Tom Zucco
As a child, Ashley Rhodes-Courter '08 spent more than nine years in foster care, bouncing around 14 different homes until she was finally adopted at age 12. She later learned that roughly a quarter of her caregivers were already, or eventually became, convicted felons as a result of problems with drugs, alcohol, violence or pedophilia.
"It was not the most ideal . . .
By Tom Zucco
As a child, Ashley Rhodes-Courter '08 spent more than nine years in foster care, bouncing around 14 different homes until she was finally adopted at age 12. She later learned that roughly a quarter of her caregivers were already, or eventually became, convicted felons as a result of problems with drugs, alcohol, violence or pedophilia.
"It was not the most ideal . . .