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Malisa Kringle is a champion of second chances. To her, the partnership between the NDCS and SCC is giving incarcerated individuals the power to unlock the ultimate second chance before they re-enter society. She considers this the most meaningful work she has ever done.

SCC celebrates a bold brand campaign. Let's Do More is a fresh identity which captures who SCC has always been - a college for people ready to build a skill, a career, and a future. It's a destination for doers.

Amy Jurgens knows a thing or two about starting over. As director of the SCC Entrepreneurship Center, she teaches people how they can take an idea and turn it into a business. That’s what brought her to teaching students in the UPWARD program.

Jessica Whittaker drives a bus for the Omaha Regional Transit Authority through the same city where she committed her crimes. She got there, she will tell you, by way of a phrase: “Can you Amy this?”

Tammy Zimmer knows what it means to have the deck stacked against you. Her mother had her and her twin sister at 16 and her father didn’t finish high school. Poverty wasn’t a circumstance in her childhood; it was the landscape.