How a Rhode Island Teen’s $1M Changed the State’s 6th Largest City

How a Rhode Island Teen’s $1M Changed the State’s 6th Largest City

When then-16-year old Mariam Kaba won $1 million through the Transform Rhode Island scholarship three years ago, she saw it as her opportunity to create the change she wanted to see in her nearly 45,000-person community of Woonsocket.  “I don’t see much positive representation from our community all the time,” Kaba said. “I was thinking ‘my scholarship won’t get picked.’ But it did … and I was able to bring something so big to my community, a co…