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Author Archives: Mervian Smith

Mervian Smith is a junior at Landry-Walker High School, in New Orleans and a 2017 Cohort, in The Women’s Global Empowerment Initiative.

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Mervian Smith
Posted inElementary to High School

STUDENT VOICE: How a New Orleans high-school junior learned about race and gender — in North Africa

by Mervian Smith April 2, 2018March 31, 2021

I recently spent three weeks in Morocco with a group of young women from New Orleans and Atlanta. We were there to engage in academic enrichment and to foster sisterhood. We rode donkeys on top of mountains and camels on the beach. We connected over couscous with our host families and learned the ways of […]

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