Education has always been important to Angelina Darrisaw.
She grew up in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, but her mother worked to get her a scholarship to attend a private school on the largely well-off Upper East Side of Manhattan. She commuted up to four hours a day for school.
“They always say you don’t know about racism and inequity until you see it in your face,” Darrisaw tells CNBC Make It. “In going from one part of New York to another part, it was really clear to see access gaps that existed.”
When she started at the private school in seventh grade, Darrisaw didn’t know how to type or use a computer, while the other students could already create websites, she says.
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