Debt-Free College Forum

U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) joins other Senate Democrats, students, teachers, and advocates at a forum discussing college affordability and the student debt crisis. Menendez introduces New Jerseyan and Bergen Community College Professor Mecheline Farhat Roldan at the roundtable. Her story—a first-generation American and educator with $170,000 in combined student loan debt between her and her husband—outrages many of the Senators, who continually mention her experience as an example of why our system needs to change.