DeRionne Pollard is on a mission to raise the profile of community colleges.

The new president and CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges believes they’re key to the country’s innovation and national security, in part because they enjoy increasingly rare bipartisan support, but their outsize role too often goes overlooked.

“When you serve everyone, you’re noticed by no one,” she said. That’s why “we have to be very deliberate about how we are amplifying and telling our own story.”

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