Leaning on this network, Cupcake climbed the long, difficult, and steep ladder to transformation, sobriety, positive change, self-improvement, and triumph.Īs an author, attorney, and advocate, Cupcake speaks all over the country, using all of the years of negative experiences, coupled with the positives, to share with others how - even though it seems impossible - the hopes and dreams of anyone really can come true.Īfter law school, Cupcake was an attorney for one of the 25th largest law firms in the nation.īesides graduating college magna cum laude without a high school diploma or G.E.D., Cupcake has received many scholastic awards including, the University of San Francisco School of Law's Judge Harold J. She sensed a Guiding Hand and discovered that, over time, a network of people were being formed to encourage and guide her along the way. Yet, despite enormous fear and grave self-doubt, Cupcake grabbed a hold, prayed, and held on for dear life as she learned that there was another way - a better way. Her story is also about choices - good ones and bad ones - and about the possibilities that are there if only we 'Pray, trust, work hard, and grab hold!' Most people would have been daunted by the hurdles she faced. Unfortunately, life would get much worse before it got better as Cupcake spiraled into a life that hovered somewhere above state prison, at best, and death on the mean streets, at worst.Ĭupcake's story is about system failure, societal ignorance, and a little girl who, as a result, resigned to degradation, depression, deprivation, and defeat. By age 13, she had graduated to gang activities and street crime. At 11, she regularly engaged in prostitution, drugs, and alcohol. Her younger years were not a model for achieving success her youth interrupted by violence and emotional turbulence.

Her story is also about choices - good ones and Cupcake Brown was not born into a life of privilege, intellectual stimulation, or professional dynamics. Cupcake's story is about system failure, societal ignorance, and a little girl who, as a result, resigned to degradation, depression, deprivation, and defeat. Unfortunately, life would get much worse before it got better as Cupcake spiraled into a life that hovered somewhere above state prison, at best, and death on the mean streets, at worst.

Cupcake Brown was not born into a life of privilege, intellectual stimulation, or professional dynamics.

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