Treva R. Stewart

Treva R. Stewart was born and raised in San Francisco, Ca. At a very young age she learned that she stood on the shoulders of giants: a great grandmother one generation removed from slavery who became a property owner and respected leader of her community; a grandmother who earned a nursing degree in the 1930s; and her own mother who left Louisiana as a 21-year-old widowed mother of two, in pursuit of opportunity and a better life for herself and her children. Treva’s mother, the most influential person in her life, instilled in her the necessity and value of education and the responsibility...