Jonathan Grant Brown

At 2008's Up Where We Belong Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, AVID alumnus Jonathan Grant Brown tells the audience about his 14 years of foster care, which began when his mother left he and his brother in a park, and how AVID helped him get his life together and become the kind of man he wanted to be. Jonathan Grant Brown was student speaker at AVID's Dallas Summer Institute in 2006 and now is a promotional speaker for AVID. This video is used in the "What Makes a Successful AVID Student" lesson plan. TRT 9:53