Featured on Good Morning America, Oprah Winfrey, and honored by the Texas Legislature for her work with pregnant/parenting teens, Kathy Henigan Jimerson began her journey as a sixteen-year-old school dropout and teen mother.

Through encouragement from others, she chose faith, hard work and a tenacious belief that God had a good plan for her life. After earning a GED, she completed a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in speech communication and secondary education.

She and her husband have been married over 50 years, and have three successful children and nine grandchildren. “Although society judged us as most unlikely to succeed, in spite of our detours, we proved with God’s help, dreams don’t have to die.”