FirstGen Insights

FirstGen Insights brings context to our stories—using data, research, and visual storytelling to illuminate the patterns behind lived experience. This is where personal journeys and collective experiences are translated for broader understanding.

Questions No Blueprint Can Answer: Insights from navigating unfamiliar spaces

Questions No Blueprint Can Answer: Insights from navigating unfamiliar spaces

Infographic exploring the uncertainty, pressure, and growth that often accompany first-generation and self-made journeys.

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Belonging Changes What’s Possible: Insights from work, education, health, and community

Belonging Changes What’s Possible: Insights from work, education, health, and community

Infographic highlighting how belonging influences well-being, performance, and outcomes across key social systems.

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Different Backgrounds. Better Outcomes.

Different Backgrounds. Better Outcomes.

Minimalist infographic depicting diverse people standing together, representing inclusion; highlighting improvement in outcomes experienced by organizations that value different backgrounds.

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No Blueprint Required: Building while becoming

No Blueprint Required: Building while becoming

Iconographic showing growth isn’t linear. Learning, navigating, and building happen in cycles—often at the same time—showing that progress comes from becoming while you build.

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The First Year Looks Different

The First Year Looks Different

Infographic highlighting how first-generation college students experience the first year differently, from move-in through early academic and social transitions. The data surfaces differences in belonging, support, and persistence that often go unseen—but shape everything that follows.

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Many Ways to Be First

Many Ways to Be First

Visualization of five data points related to experience, transition, and becoming. The graphic highlights varied paths often associated with being first.

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Built Without a Blueprint

Built Without a Blueprint

Built Without a Blueprint highlights the foundational role of Black labor, innovation, and leadership in shaping American systems. It traces what was built—and what continues.

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The Experience Behind The Insights

Each Insight is grounded in lived experience—sometimes drawn from FirstGen Stories, sometimes from broader narratives, and sometimes standing on its own.

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Context brings clarity to lived experience. FirstGen Insights makes those experiences visible, shared, and understood beyond those who lived them.