Kenville-Keys was receiving AFDC in 1989 when she decided to attend Mott Community College in Flint. She was a single parent with three children and pregnant with her fourth. It was during that time that she became a domestic violence victim.

After completing all the prerequisites for nursing school, she was told there would be a three- to-five year wait to begin the nursing program at Mott. Rather than wait, Kenville-Keys applied to 14 other nursing schools in Michigan. She was accepted to Henry Ford Hospital out of approximately 700 applicants and began an accelerated RN program in September 1992. She relocated to Oakland County and was referred to the MOST program for assistance with child care. In 1994, she graduated with honors for clinical excellence - number five out of a class of approximately 90.

Since becoming an Achiever, Kenville-Keys has made many presentations about the importance of education and getting off AFDC. She also has been featured in Women's World magazine, Time, The Detroit News and Fling Journal and has been interviewed on Family Life Radio and Monitor Radio as well as appearing in an A&E documentary on the first 100 days of Congress. She also shared her experiences with welfare and her struggle for independence during a panel discussion at the 1994 American Public Welfare Association conference in Washington, D.C.

Today she is a full-time registered nurse at Flint Osteopathic Hospital and, in addition, works part time at Allen Health Care as a visiting nurse. She was just recently married and she and her husband purchased their own home - her first - which she describes as "wonderful."