Posted on June 21, 2015 by Ben Chapman in New York Daily News New York Daily News, By Ben Chapman A resilient Brooklyn teen is going from a homeless shelter to a dorm at New York University. Johileny Meran Almonte has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair. But that wasn’t the worst of it. Her mother died in 2010. Johileny has been living in a homeless shelter during her entire high school career, overcoming the odds to graduate from Juan Morel Campos Secondary School with a 95 average. The valedictorian of her class of 86 students, she’s off to college with a full scholarship.
