Girl in Action Amanda LaMunyon: We All Have a Gift to Give
"Everybody saw me as this unruly child who always got in trouble. After I was diagnosed, people could see that I was a girl who was different and had a gift to give." These are the words of Amanda...
View ArticleJazmin Branch: Researcher of Breast Cancer
After losing several family members to cancer, Jazmin Branch turned her grief into the quest for a cure. She began researching cancer while she was in high school. As she investigated, Jazmin found...
View ArticleSpecial Delivery from Jen Rubino!
A little more than a year ago, 16-year-old Jen Rubino thought about how she could change the experience of a child in the hospital. Having spent a lot of time in hospitals herself, Rubino drew from her...
View ArticleElizabeth Beisel: Swimming Toward the Gold!
Elizabeth Beisel is just like any other college student—with good grades, a healthy social life, and four international medals to represent her competitive swimming career! Okay, so maybe she isn’t...
View ArticleTeen Activists Take On “Seventeen”
Have you heard the name Julia Bluhm? If you follow national news, you’ve probably seen her name making headlines. That’s because recently, Bluhm and her best friend Izzy Labbe and, along with many...
View ArticleOvercoming Obstacles and Going for Gold: Olympian Samantha Peszek
At just 19 years old, Samantha Peszek has already has accomplished more than many of us will in a lifetime. Born in Indianapolis in 1991, she began gymnastics and launched her outstanding career in...
View ArticleKids Caring 4 Kids: Kendall Ciesemier Promotes Advocacy By Kids, For Kids
Kendall Ciesemier is finishing her college freshman year at Georgetown University, but unlike most young women beginning college, Kendall has been fighting a chronic illness. Diagnosed with a rare...
View ArticleGirl in Action: One Teen on a Mission to Encourage Others
Thinking about the future can sometimes be scary, especially when you’re thinking about somebody else’s. For 17-year-old Diana Florencio, however, these are common thoughts. Florencio is a chapter...
View ArticleKim Anyadike: “The Sky is No Longer the Limit”
Kim Anyadike has always set her sights above and beyond the ordinary. As just a freshman in high school, she set a world record as the youngest African-American pilot to fly across the United States to...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs Erika Welsh and Keely Tillotson: Wild Squirrel Nut Butter
Best friends and young entrepreneurs Erika Welsh and Keeley Tillotson go together like peanut butter and jelly—and peanut butter and cinnamon, raisins, chocolate, coconut, honey, and pretzels. They are...
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