Baltimore, Maryland
2007
Welcome!
In the summer of 1986, Jennifer Kerr was a homeless, single mother on the
streets of New York when Governor Mario Cuomo and his wife, Matilda, took a personal interest in her
small family.
Jennifer promised the governor that she would change her life and never give him cause to
regret the kindness he had shown her.
Now a happily married mother of six and a law school graduate, Jennifer manages millions of dollars worth
of property and financial investments.
Believing that education is the single most effective tool for
overcoming poverty, she has endowed a major scholarship for single parents at a four-year university and
has privately financed the college educations of several single mothers in her local area.
This is the remarkable true story of the promise she made and her twenty-year quest to fulfill it.