Courtesy of Chris Newell

Wayne Newell

Wayne Newell addressing students at the 2018 HUNAP annual Powwow. When he was admitted to the GSE through the AIP, he did not have a bachelor’s degree. “I stayed up all night — and I get emotional to think about this part — and opened my heart to whatever needed to be written on that paper,” Newell said. “And I just wrote and wrote and wrote.”