For 2025 BOOST Scholarship recipient Jody-Ann Stephens, education has long been more than a profession; it is a route to opportunity, growth and change.
Raised in Portland Cottage, Clarendon, she knows the constraints many young Jamaicans face. As a child, she could not afford much of what her peers took for granted. Even so, she focused on her studies, seeing education as the surest way out of poverty.