Remarkable and Inspiring Teens -- Beating the Odds

Alicia Frosch
Alicia Frosch  
Photo by Julie Frosch


Back when she was 16, odds were that life wouldn’t turn out right for the Minneapolis girl called Alicia.

More than just entangled in the throes of adolescence, she was overwhelmed. She knew she was smart, but she struggled with school and so she acted out, hanging with gangs, running away so often her mother finally threw up her hands in desperation and had her admitted briefly to a teen mental-health program.  
“I was my own disaster,’’ Alicia Frosch, the confident and well-spoken 34-year-old woman she became tells me now, a college graduate and a societal game-changer.
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