Over the past 20 years, Nolita Lewis has logged hundreds of hours in Cincinnati-area schools, serving as a student math tutor and a STEM mentor for girls.

Last fall,

The first time Alisha Davis-Kent heard about Next Engineers, GE’s new global college readiness program focused on increasing the diversity of young people in the engineering field, she felt like someone had “heard my story, understood my story and was creating a solution to help others overcome some of the struggles and problems that I had as a child.”