Nicole Lynn knows she probably shouldn’t be here.
Here is a place of dreams turning to reality, Lynn an NFL agent on the rise — one who just happens to be both female and African-American. There? That would’ve been a much different place, entrenched in the life of poverty and misfortune that engulfed others close to her.
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, Lynn grew up below the poverty line — and not just by a little. The surrounding neighborhood threatened to lure you to the streets. Lynn and family bounced from home to home, juggling eviction notices, living in a car, wondering when utilities would work, where the next meal would come from.