Going viral, giving back
BY ALEX KEKAUOHA Like the rest of her fellow 2020 graduates, Alyssa Farrow’s college career didn’t end the way she’d planned. Despite the circumstances, she was still able to mark the occasion in a big way. Video by Kurt Hickman Alyssa Farrow rocked the Twitterverse when she announced that she was the first person in her Native American tribe to graduate from Stanford. Now, the 2020 graduate plans to invest her Stanford education in her hometown. After watching Stanford’s virtual graduation celebration at home in Oregon where she grew up, Farrow took to Twitter to announce the milestone to her followers. “I graduated from college today. First-generation, low-income, and first from my tribe to graduate from Stanford. Wild,” she tweeted. The message quickly attracted hundreds of thousands of likes – and then thousands more retweets and comments. Farrow said she was shocked by her sudden viral fame. “I didn’t know how to react,” she said. “So, I kind of kept it a secret for as long as