In 2010, Nadia Lopez founded Mott Hall Bridges Academy, a public middle School which is located in Brownsville, one of the poorest and most dangerous neighborhoods in New York City. Nadia’s new book, The Bridge to Brilliance: How One Principal in a Tough Community Is Inspiring the World (Viking 2016), tells the moving story of a determined school principal’s journey to help her students succeed against impossible odds.

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