Korto Momolu

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131 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 10 Feb

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The Moth · Live from New York: The Audacity! Global Stories of Daring: The Moth Radio Hour · 10 Feb 2026 podcast

But it didn't matter because we didn't have any money, and it wasn't going to matter anyway.

So who cared, right?

And she would say, God will find a way.

God's going to make a way.

And she would take my sketchbook to anybody that would listen and anyone that would look at it, everywhere she volunteered.

And one day she took it to our church, and there was a lady that had just joined the church from Montreal who happened to be in the fashion industry.

And she saw my sketchbook and told my mom, I think your daughter needs to go to fashion design school.

You should try to get her in.

And she said, well, she actually got accepted to the number one fashion school in the country.

But we can't afford it because we don't have any money because of the war in Liberia.

And this woman, a stranger, looked at my mother and said, if you allow me to, I would love to pay for your daughter to go to fashion design school.

And she did.

She paid for me to go to school.

She took me to fabric stores to make sure I would have everything I needed so when I started school, I'd be on the same playing field as everybody and no one would know my situation.

And I excelled.

I graduated top three in my class, and after continued in the design world to see where I would land my foot.

And eventually this reality show came around called Project Runway.

And when I saw the first episode, I knew, I was like, I gotta get on here, and I did.

Season five, I auditioned, I got on, got all the way to the end and finished second.

Although it was bittersweet because I didn't win, when I got home, it was the emails and the letters that I got from all over the world, but it was especially the ones from Rwanda, from Somalia, and especially from Liberia of little girls that said, I watched Project Runway with my mom and dad, and because you made it, now I can go to fashion design school.

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