Lamar Shambley '10 founded Teens of Color Abroad, a nonprofit that offers language immersion study abroad programs to high school students of color, to provide the same opportunities to others.

Lamar: Thanks for inviting me, Spiffy! Teens of Color Abroad, also known as TOCA, was created to address the racial disparities in language learning and study-abroad opportunities.

Lamar Shambley '10 was transformed by a study abroad experience at W&M. Lamar Shambley at the 2019 Diversity Abroad Conference in Boston. Photo courtesy of Lamar Shambley In his sophomore year in high ...

When Lamar Shambley was chosen to study abroad in Seville, Spain, in 2009 through the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, he couldn’t wait to immerse himself in this new ...

Lamar Shambley grew up in Bed-Stuy, New York, and dreamed of one day traveling to a Spanish-speaking country to use the Spanish he was learning in his high school classes. Shambley had to turn down a ...

— While many College of William and Mary students were taking a rest from exams Monday afternoon, Lamar Shambley decided to use his free time to put the finishing touches on a term paper. The ...