How a senior thesis changed classrooms across America

Wendy Kopp was a senior at Princeton University in 1989, part of a cohort of the most recruited students in America. She and her peers in what was widely called "The Me Generation" were being recruited by Wall Street, big banks, lobbying firms, consulting firms and Fortune 500 companies. Kopp, who'd grown up in Dallas and went to good schools throughout her childhood, realized upon getting to Princeton and meeting people from less privileged backgrounds that not everyone had the same access to e