In 1998, Bryan Mogaru was still a boy and living in Nairobi when the American Embassy was bombed by terrorists. The explosion killed 247 Kenyans, 21 foreign nationals and 12 U.S. citizens. Bryan watched it unfold. “The buildings going down. People are crying. People are running away,” he says. “You could look at someone dying in front of you.” It dawned on him then that he wanted to be able to fight “the bad guys.” But, as he grew older, he realized he couldn’t fully achieve that goal in his home country. “In Kenya,” he says, “you may have potential for something, but more often than not, you have no way to reach it.”

So, Bryan came to America as a young man. After four years of working three jobs, 16 hours a day, he decided to go to school. He was fortunate to discover  American Public University (APU)—and decided to study cybersecurity. “The online environment is so perfect,” he says. “It eliminated the barriers that stood between me and my school ambitions, and it worked well without interrupting my work schedule.” And APU gave him hope. “I see myself getting closer to my dream,” he says. “I see myself making a difference in the world.”

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