"You're empowered to create your own experience, to tailor it around the impact that you want to make here on campus," says Film and Screen Studies student Justin Winley. "I'm building a community that I can draw on even after I graduate."
#91ÊÓƵGoGetters: Maria Escobar
91ÊÓƵ's Maria Escobar is the co-founder of the World Without Exploitation National Youth Coalition—a network of young people dedicated to ending human trafficking—and she’s presented at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
"I was inspired to major in women's and gender studies because I want to end commercial sexual exploitation and fight human trafficking," says Maria. "91ÊÓƵ offered a human rights advocacy program where we were able to create a lot of awareness."
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