After a family tragedy, a mentor stepped in to rescue a high school scholar
Peer Power's Danielle Nelson (in a 2019 file photo) works with a ninths-grade English class at Whitehaven High School. Peer Power recruits, trains and employs University of Memphis students to work alongside teachers in classrooms as 'success coaches' for younger students. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian file)
Malcom Rawls
Malcom Rawls is a graduate of East High School and the University of Memphis. He has been an employee of the Peer Power Foundation since 2005, and now serves as chief operating officer.
A house fire led a Ridgeway student to consider dropping out to aid her family. A Peer Power mentor says, "She was just one step from leaving it all behind."
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