About the Project

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My Gold Award project, inspired by anthropology and oral history projects, aims to address the inequalities women face – and particularly women from immigrant families– when it comes to opportunities and obstacles to success in the United States, specifically in Westchester County, where I live. 

My project will address this issue by interviewing and recording the oral histories of immigrant and first-generation women leaders in business, education, and politics in Westchester County. I plan to then develop graphic and literary narratives of their lives.

To start, I plan to identify 3 women for this project, and hope to continue adding more inspiring women in the future!

My interviews will focus on:

• Their stories of personal and professional development 
• What they have in common in terms of the steps they each took to get where they are and the challenges they faced
• Insights into how they overcame those challenges
• Advice they might have for other girls and women like them