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March\/April 2018<\/em><\/p>\n If not us, who? is a five-part series featuring women and girls who are igniting change locally and nationally in politics, social activism, education and business. The goal of the series is to not only highlight the work they are doing, but educate the community on issues and movements happening around them. Alexa Hill and Kylie Scheaffer interviewed women and girls who are working toward social justice, involved in research and embracing entrepreneurial\u00a0challenges.<\/p>\n Click on the thumbnails below to read the articles. This is a series featuring women and girls who are igniting change locally and nationally in politics, social activism, education and business. Alexa Hill and Kylie Scheaffer interviewed women and girls who are working toward social justice, involved in research and embracing entrepreneurial challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":8422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10459"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10478,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10459\/revisions\/10478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ prev_background_color=”#ffffff” _builder_version=”3.3.1″ background_color=”#24a5f6″ use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_start=”#e0c894″ background_color_gradient_end=”rgba(12,113,195,0.34)” background_color_gradient_direction=”167deg” custom_padding=”51.1875px|0px|29px|0px|false|false” top_divider_style=”wave” top_divider_height=”204px” bottom_divider_style=”wave” bottom_divider_height=”407px” next_background_color=”#ffffff”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.3.1″ border_color_all=”rgba(0,0,0,0)”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_blurb title=”How this 11 year old inspires the next generation of young entrepreneurs” url=”http:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/if-not-us-who-how-this-11-year-old-inspires-the-next-generation-of-young-entrepreneurs\/” image=”http:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/gabby_header.jpg” _builder_version=”3.3.1″ header_level=”h3″ header_font=”|700|||||||” header_text_color=”#000000″ body_text_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0.69)” body_font_size=”16″ border_radii_image=”on|5px|5px|5px|5px” box_shadow_style_image=”preset2″ box_shadow_color_image=”rgba(38,38,38,0.58)” background_layout=”dark” custom_margin=”|||” custom_padding=”||13px|” animation_style=”fold”]As the face of\u00a0Gabby Bows, a company she started with her mom six years ago, Gabby has had the opportunity to build a brand while still attending school as a straight-A student.<\/strong>
\n[\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_blurb title=”What it takes to become vice president” url=”http:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/if-not-us-who-what-it-takes-to-become-vice-president\/” image=”http:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/mills_header.jpg” _builder_version=”3.6″ header_level=”h3″ header_font=”|700|||||||” header_text_color=”#000000″ body_text_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0.69)” body_font_size=”16″ border_radii_image=”on|5px|5px|5px|5px” box_shadow_style_image=”preset2″ box_shadow_color_image=”rgba(38,38,38,0.58)” background_layout=”dark” custom_margin=”63px|||” custom_padding=”||0px|” animation_style=”fold”]For Mills Hays, equal representation in politics is more important now than ever. It was a tenet of her platform, something she made clear while addressing students at her inauguration.<\/strong>
\n[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_blurb title=”How one woman is pushing for drug treatments” url=”http:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/if-not-us-who-how-one-woman-is-pushing-for-drug-treatments\/” image=”http:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/andrews_header.jpg” _builder_version=”3.3.1″ header_level=”h3″ header_font=”|700|||||||” header_text_color=”#000000″ body_text_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0.69)” body_font_size=”16″ border_radii_image=”on|5px|5px|5px|5px” box_shadow_style_image=”preset2″ box_shadow_color_image=”rgba(38,38,38,0.58)” background_layout=”dark” custom_margin=”160px|||” custom_margin_tablet=”12px|||” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|tablet” custom_padding=”||13px|” animation_style=”fold”]Hard work and personal sacrifice are two things that Christina Andrews, a professor in the University of South Carolina\u2019s College of Social Work,\u00a0 is familiar with. For years she\u2019s devoted time to teaching and researching the effects of drug treatments for those struggling with opioid conditions.<\/strong>
\n[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_blurb title=”How one woman teaches people to accept the \u2018other\u2019” url=”http:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/if-not-us-who-how-one-woman-teaches-people-to-accept-the-other\/” image=”http:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Clementi_header.jpg” _builder_version=”3.6″ header_level=”h3″ header_font=”|700|||||||” header_text_color=”#000000″ body_text_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0.69)” body_font_size=”16″ border_radii_image=”on|5px|5px|5px|5px” box_shadow_style_image=”preset2″ box_shadow_color_image=”rgba(38,38,38,0.58)” background_layout=”dark” custom_margin=”36px|||” custom_padding=”||13px|” animation_style=”fold”]Federica Clementi has studied photographs, and the people in them her entire life, in an effort to unravel the stories of those who suffered and survived the Holocaust, and the generations who have come after.<\/strong>
\n[\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_blurb title=”How one woman fights for social and political equality” url=”http:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/if-not-us-who-how-one-woman-fights-for-social-and-political-equality\/” image=”http:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/faces_graphic_DrMR-1280×640.jpg” _builder_version=”3.6″ header_level=”h3″ header_font=”|700|||||||” header_text_color=”#000000″ body_text_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0.69)” body_font_size=”16″ border_radii_image=”on|5px|5px|5px|5px” box_shadow_style_image=”preset2″ box_shadow_color_image=”rgba(38,38,38,0.58)” background_layout=”dark” custom_margin=”58px|||” custom_padding=”||13px|” animation_style=”fold”]Mamphela Ramphele was too young to understand it, but could see that something was wrong. At the age of six Ramphele saw firsthand how the apartheid ripped apart communities like her own.\u00a0<\/strong>
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