His life was barely worth a dollar.
This is the true story of a Homeless boy, marked for prison or worse, who fought against tremendous odds and persevered to achieve academic and professional success..
He never hoped to dream that not only would he graduate from high school but also from a prestigious California university.
Michael vowed to change his fate through getting his high school diploma. his reality- violence, gangsters, hunger, poverty, and sorrow marked his daily life.
Caught in between two worlds- his dreams vs.
To survive, he had to become something more.
Education was not.
Michael learned death was a big part of youth homelessness.
From the age of seven to seventeen, Michael, with his mother and sister, journeyed along his own underground railroad, desperately searching for a way to free his family from the sewers of society.
With his father incarcerated and mother disabled, he stayed Homeless for ten years.
Michael Gaulden lived in shelter after shelter across the United States.
He slept outside, on park benches, in stairwells, under bushes.
His life was barely worth a dollar
