Jerry Banfield

What does our world look like when a few of us are freed from student loan debt by the generosity of others and then we pay that forward for life?  With your donation at https://www.gofundme.com/debt-free-2019-vs-law-grad-school-student-loans we will find out together! Our story begins in 2002 where I had no debt and began borrowing money first for a bachelor's degree from the University of South Carolina which I finished in 2006 followed by a master's degree completed in 2012 at the University of South Florida in Tampa.  My wife began the same journey in 2003 with her bachelor's degree from Boston University followed by finishing law school in 2012 at Stetson in Saint Petersburg.  We both took every scholarship and worked multiple jobs to minimize the amount we needed to borrow. 17 years later we have made $100,000+ in payments with no end in sight as our balance today is $193,493.  Our minimum payment is $2039.40 a month with the United States government receiving the majority of that