One Million Degrees
Taneka G. currently serves as a Program Coordinator at Harold Washington College and Harry S. Truman College for One Million Degrees since August 2023. Previously, Taneka held several positions within the Racine Unified School District from February 2016 to August 2023, including 7th Grade Science Teacher, Title One Middle School Math Teacher, and Youth Advocate, along with substitute teaching and teaching a summer session for Write Brain Books. Taneka's experience also includes a short tenure as a Fourth Grade Teacher with Center for Urban Teaching, Inc. and a Family Success Coach with United Way of Racine County, focusing on developing individual success plans for participants in various areas. Taneka's career in education began as a paraprofessional at Racine Unified School District from 2002 to 2012. Educational qualifications include an Opioid Impacted Family Support Specialist Certificate from Concordia University-Wisconsin, an Elementary Education Teaching License from Wisconsin Lutheran College, and multiple degrees in Criminal Justice and Sociology from Carthage College.
One Million Degrees
One Million Degrees empowers low-income, highly motivated community college students to succeed in school, in work, and in life. Community college students are among the most important yet least supported of this country's undergraduate population. Community colleges offer pathways to meaningful careers and, often, an on-ramp to four-year universities. Yet, lacking critical resources, most students never graduate. It is stunning how little is available to this vital and vibrant group of students. One Million Degrees changes the odds entirely. Our groundbreaking program – innovative, personalized, uniquely effective – delivers the kind of meaningful support that is transforming lives and creating a pattern of positive change that will echo for generations. This is what works.