Attorney Quote by Sonia Sotomayor

I was a social studies teacher at a high school in the Bronx for five years.

— Charles Best

I grew up in the South Bronx in the 1970s. My dad worked in IT, and my mom was a teacher.

— Sunny Hostin

I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things.

— Jennifer Lopez

I moved to New York in 1989 and went to study at NYU.

— James Murphy

I attended Bronx Science. I graduated and am very much aware of both what those schools offer New Yorkers and the limitations of the…

— Zohran Mamdani

I grew up in the Bronx.

— Chris Hayes

So, I started teaching in 1999 in the South Bronx.

— Jamaal Bowman

I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a…

— Cara Buono

I was a teacher. I also worked at Harlem Children's Zone. I moved back to Baltimore and opened up an after-school, out-of-school program on…

— DeRay Mckesson

My three years in Manhattan were sort of my university years. I was learning by myself, and it was a tough time. That's when…

— Hallgrimur Helgason

I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.

— Star Jones

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From…

— Philip Zimbardo