July 18th 2023.
Dr. Dorothy Miller, from Pinetops, North Carolina, recently made a remarkable discovery when a diploma was found in the trunk of her car. It was the same diploma her daughter, Shaquita Brandy, had just received from the very nursing program that Miller had helped to establish at St. Andrews University.
Miller's story is one of inspiration and determination. As a teenage mother, she was determined to pursue her education goals, going on to obtain both a Bachelor's of Science in Nursing and a Doctoral degree. Her hard-work and dedication led to her pioneering a nursing program at the North Carolina school, which her daughter was the first to graduate from this past May.
Miller was encouraged by her own mother, who despite their rural upbringing, told her to not let her surroundings determine her future. She was determined to keep Miller in school, even after she became pregnant at 15-years-old. Miller remembered her mother's goal for her, "Her goal for me was to not stop school. I had my child on a Friday, and my mother made sure I was in school that next Monday."
Miller is now the department chair of health sciences at St. Andrews University, and is using her multiple degrees to try and get accepted onto the North Carolina Board of Nursing. She is motivated by her own story and wants to help bring better health care to rural towns like the one she grew up in.
Her story is an example of the strength and determination of Black mothers, and has been a motivation for Miller to pursue her own goals. She said, "What some people saw as a mistake, having a child so young, to me was a catalyst. I think that if I hadn't been given the opportunity to have that child, I wouldn't have accomplished what I did. By having her, it pushed me to do something outside of me so that I could have a better future for her."
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