Girls in Action 
Jazmin Branch: Researcher of Breast Cancer(1)
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 there was more to the disease than meets the eye, or the girl for that matter. Teen Voices spoke with Jazmin about her research, and how she became focused on its incidence in Latina and African American women.
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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 LaMunyon, a 16-year-old girl with Asperger’s Syndrome.
Girl in Action Sejal Hathi: Fostering Females as Changemakers with a Global Sisterhood
“I really wanted to do something to ["¦] bring girls from all across the globe together to realize that they are a sisterhood.”
Girl in Action Talia Leman: Creating Change from Change
Hurricane Katrina slammed against the Gulf Coast in 2005, leaving thousands homeless, injured, and terrified. While many of us wanted to help but didn’t know how, Talia Leman got to work. Trick-or-treating that Halloween, she asked for coins instead of candy. The result: ten million dollars and an organization that’s still churning out change.
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