The curriculum gap was specific: if you do not have access to advanced mathematics courses in high school, you cannot enter university mathematics programs at the level required for STEM careers.

The support gap was specific: if you have no models, no mentors, no community of people who have done what you are thinking about doing, the path is harder and the dropout rate is higher.

The financial gap was specific: higher education costs money that many Native families, facing the economic consequences of generations of dispossession and policy failure, did not have.

Each of those gaps was addressable in specific ways, and she was specific about how to address them.