FORT WORTH – The challenge of empowering the leaders of tomorrow got a big assist from the Dallas Mavericks on Thursday when the organization donated laptop computers and many other essentials to 31 college-bound graduates of the Young Women’s Leadership Academy.
Accompanied by the music of “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” Mavericks’ CEO Cynt Marshall addressed the graduates and served as a walking, talking example of what it means when somebody says, it takes a village.

“This brings me full circle,” Marshall said. “I was the first in my family to go to college.