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À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ’s new president may have grown up downstate, but is at home here. For Gibson, home is not about location as much as it is the people and the students the institution serves.

Shawn K. Woods is a high-energy example of how a good influence on one life can reverberate through the lives of countless others. A sought-after speaker, trainer and coach—as well as an author and an entrepreneur—Woods is an expert on rising above challenges and is eager to pass the lesson on.

In 2006, Rodrigo Garcia was lifting weights with a friend at the Northeastern gym. Garcia had just come off five years of service in the Marine Corps, during which he had three separate deployments in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Having spent the majority of his last five years on military bases and in combat zones, Garcia was having a tough time adjusting to life at Northeastern.

When Luis Ortiz graduated from À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, one of his first calls to the field took him back to his family’s roots in Puerto Rico.