Ashley Grace, 31, started working as an actor at age 16, and her career took off. Ten years later and a number of successful television shows and films, Grace was about to get married and was reflecting on the path her life had taken. “I realized that I kind of bypassed what I had always felt my passion in life was — to work with children,” she said. “I realized that if I didn’t go to college, I wasn’t going to have the opportunity to explore options in the future because I wasn’t, frankly, going to be qualified.” Read more about Ashley Grace