Holding hopes of her Ghanaian community and her immigrant parents, Denver graduate heads to Stanford

By Jenny Brundin
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A woman with bright red hair stands in a cream-colored sitting room filled with photos and plants.
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Kaylyn Noah at her home in Denver’s Green Valley Ranch neighborhood. Aug. 28, 2024.

A woman with bright red hair sits in a cream-colored sitting room filled with photos and plants.
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Kaylyn Noah at her home in Denver's Green Valley Ranch neighborhood. Aug. 28, 2024.

A woman with bright red hair holds a little girl in her lap, in a cream-colored sitting room filled with photos and plants.
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Kaylyn Noah and her niece, Abicity, at her home in Denver's Green Valley Ranch neighborhood. Aug. 28, 2024.

A photo of a woman in a blue graduation gown, holding a red, yellow and green flag, sits on a shelf along with other images.
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Kaylyn Noah's graduation photo, at her home in Denver's Green Valley Ranch neighborhood. Aug. 28, 2024.

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Two women embrace, smiling at the camera, in a brightly lit room.
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Kayla (left) and Kaylyn Noah at their family's home in Denver's Green Valley Ranch neighborhood. Aug. 28, 2024.

Three women in white and pink dresses sit in chairs against a wall. One wears a pair of headphones.
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Kaylyn Noah (center) sits with her sisters, Kayla (left) and Dylan, as they run AV during Sunday service at Gospel Light Assembly of God, off Parker Road in Denver. Sept. 17, 2024.

A woman in a white dress kneels on cherry-red carpet as a man standing above her touches her shoulder with one hand and speaks into a microphone with another; hands reach into the frame in the foreground.
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Rev. Seth Aidoo wishes Kaylyn Noah well as she prepares to leave for college at Stanford University, during Sunday service at his Gospel Light Assembly of God church off Parker Road in Denver. Sept. 17, 2024.
A man in a button-up raises a hand as he yells into a microphone. We're looking up at him, and a woman in a white floral dress kneeling beside him.
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Rev. Seth Aidoo wishes Kaylyn Noah well as she prepares to leave for college at Stanford University, during Sunday service at his Gospel Light Assembly of God church off Parker Road in Denver. Sept. 17, 2024.

A woman with bleach-blonde braided hair looks emotional as she speaks at a microphone. A man watches from beside her, smiling.
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Kaylyn Noah tears up as she addresses the congregation at Gospel Light Assembly of God's Sunday service before she leaves for college at Stanford University. Sept. 17, 2024.
A woman in a white floral dress speaks into a microphone from the front of a red-carpeted room filled with people sitting in rows of chairs.
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Kaylyn Noah addresses the congregation at Gospel Light Assembly of God's Sunday service before she leaves for college at Stanford University. Sept. 17, 2024.

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