The Texas Campus Compact, an organization that prides itself on helping college students in Texas, is holding a banquet Thursday to raise awareness about how service learning and civic engagement are helping to close the gaps of educational inequity in Texas.
The banquet titled "Live. Learn. Serve." will be hosted at 5:30 p.m. at the Omni Hotel. The keynote speaker will be ABC News correspondent John Quinones.
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Live. Learn. Serve.
ABC News correspondent John Quinones sat down with our Rich Segal to talk about the event.
 
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Quinones, who said a similar organization to the Texas Campus Compact helped him get into college said, "I benefitted greatly from programs like this when I was a kid growing up."
Quinones will also be discussing his new book titled "Heroes Among Us." Quinones said his book is about all of the heroes he's met through working at ABC over a span of 25 or 30 years.
"You know people talk about how the media always reports the bad news? Here's a chance to shine our light on the heroes that I've met, people who help children, who live in the sewers of Columbia. People who help children who cut sugar cane as slaves in Haiti and the Dominican Republic," he said. "Stories like that, I think, that inspire, I wanted to boast about the heroes I've met."
For more information on the banquet and to get tickets, visit texascampuscompact.com.
