This case study explored what perspectives adults who volunteer at In4All, a career-connected learning nonprofit organization, hold about access barriers and education equity that are specific to students who have been historically underserved. Career professionals and their ability or desire to volunteer are the crux of career-connected learning opportunities and programs. In most contexts, career professionals who volunteer in schools are presented as experts in their field, which ostensibly places them hierarchically above the students and even the teachers whose classrooms they visit. While volunteerism has been widely researched, missing altogether is an exploration of the perspectives adult volunteers have about the causes that inspire them to participate in acts of volunteerism. The perspectives that career professionals entertain about students and their ability to be successful can influence how or if students have access to the opportunities that can support success. Data from 61 survey and nine focus group participants were explored. Findings are consistent with beliefs that citizenship and democracy carry with them a responsibility to give back and that education can act as the great equalizer to increase access and the success of students. Participants also struggled to undo deficit narratives and frames (Doerr, 2015; Yosso, 2005) when discussing issues of equity in education. Some of the participants also described instances of personal transformation and perceived transformation in others. I discuss implications for all who potentially benefit from volunteerism and career-connected learning programs. This includes the responsibility that career-connected learning and nonprofit organizations and corporate social responsibility programs carry to deconstruct narratives that center the student and the family as bearing the weight of success in education. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]