Twenty years after pushing through college at Florida State University and, as a young mother, finding support from a college professor, Summer Bell has witnessed that baby follow in her footsteps.
Her daughter, Alivia Thompson, has graduated from the same institution.
Bell, who had the baby days before finals, has seen even more change on her end. She now serves on her alma mater’s College of Business Board of Governors.
In 2001, Bell, who received a bachelor’s degree in marketing, found herself without stable babysitting and facing many other challenges.
A Naples, Florida native, Bell currently is the director of shopper marketing for Coca-Cola. A junior in school in 2001, Bell had just given birth to Thompson.
The 42-year-old recalls once sitting in her e-commerce class, taught by the then-new professor Michael Hartline, with the new baby in tow. She took the infant to class with her on one day in particular because her child-care arrangements had…
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