Led by Her Passions

Kaylee Burrell stands in front of UNC's Old Well in graduation cap and gown.

Earlier this year, Kaylee Burrell ’21, ’22 (M.A.T.) stood in front of a classroom of East Chapel Hill High School students, poised to teach class for the first time. Teaching had been Burrell’s career aspiration since she was in middle school, and she was now participating in a teaching internship for her master’s degree at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Education.

“There was a moment where I thought, ‘How am I going to do this?’,” Burrell said. “It was a test of whether I could really do what I had always wanted to do.”

If Burrell felt any doubt as she looked at the students seated before her, she could draw on her experiences at Carolina as ironclad proof of her capabilities. And the scholarship she head earned as an undergraduate in the Honors Carolina program also helped her maintain her resolve to follow her own path.

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