Robert Nyumah

Born in Liberia, Robert’s family fled to Ghana after the outbreak of the second Liberian civil war when he was 7 years old. In 2006, the family immigrated to Syracuse, where Robert became involved with On Point for College during his senior year of high school. He graduated from Cornell University in 2014 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Human Development and a minor in Global Health.

I work to empower others to not only succeed, but excel.

Everything Robert does is motivated by his desire to help others. Robert now works as a case manager for Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement Services, where he assists newly arrived refugee families in accessing services and navigating local systems during their initial resettlement period. He also is a girls varsity soccer coach, and he designed and facilitates an SAT and College prep program for young people in Syracuse.

Robert says he truly lives On Point for College’s mission. “In the words of Dr. Marian Wright Edelmen, ‘Service is the very purpose of life. It is the rent we pay for living on this planet,’” he said. “I am very passionate about the mission of On Point and I have incorporated its values into the work that I do every day, both paid and unpaid.”