{"id":7435,"date":"2026-06-14T03:20:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T03:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/?p=7435"},"modified":"2026-06-26T20:15:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:15:48","slug":"reflection-ty-hobson-powell-ba-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/reflection-ty-hobson-powell-ba-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Ty Hobson-Powell, B.A. \u201911"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7435\" class=\"elementor elementor-7435\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-356ef4b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"356ef4b\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a1b31d9\" data-id=\"a1b31d9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-815bfc5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"815bfc5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<figure id=\"attachment_7436\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7436\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7436 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1160\/2026\/06\/DSC_6499-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Ty Hobson and University of Baltimore President Kurt Schmoke\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of Ty Hobson and University of Baltimore President Kurt Schmoke by Kevin Parisi<\/figcaption><\/figure><blockquote><p>BIO<\/p><ul><li>B.A. \u201911, Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences<\/li><li>Youngest person to graduate from The University of Baltimore<\/li><li>Community leader and advocate<\/li><li>Thrives at the intersection of people, policy and trust<\/li><\/ul><\/blockquote><p>I received my bachelor\u2019s degree at 15 from The University of Baltimore. When people ask what shaped my voice, my discipline, and my sense of public purpose, I do not give an abstract answer. I point to UBalt, and to a campus that treated a young student not as a curiosity but as someone expected to rise to the moment.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/reflection-ty-hobson-powell-ba-11\/#more-7435\" class=\"more-link elementor-more-link\"><span aria-label=\"Continue reading Ty Hobson-Powell, B.A. \u201911\">(more&hellip;)<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIO B.A. \u201911, Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences Youngest person to graduate from The University of Baltimore Community leader and advocate Thrives at the intersection of people, policy and trust I received my bachelor\u2019s degree at 15 from The University of Baltimore. When people ask what shaped my voice, my discipline, and my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4463,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7435"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8190,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435\/revisions\/8190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}