Sixteen high school students from Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware will be honored at the Princeton Prize in Race Relations Awards Ceremony, a virtual event, June 13.
The Princeton Prize in Race Relations recognizes high school students who have advanced racial equity in their schools and communities
Among those being honored are three local students.
Amy Liu, a senior from Central Bucks High School South, Warrington, created an interactive map of hate crimes against the AAPI community, making this data more accessible nationwide.
Sarah Zhang, a senior from Central Bucks High School East, Doylestown, is the director of operations and administration of Youth 4 Unity, a student-activist group in Doylestown. She organized marches, online summits and seminars that inspired attendees to get involved, and created the Diversity Our Narrative chapter in the Central Bucks School District, which focuses on advocating for antiracist texts in the curriculum.
Shelby Williams a senior at George School in Middletown Township, established Black at George School Instagram account to highlight racism and discrimination that the students experience. Williams also created a List of Demands for school administrators to be more inclusive and accepting of all students and drove a Change.org petition.
Williams sparked the creation of George School’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice plan for the 2020-2021 school year addressing concerns including hiring faculty that reflected the diversity of the student body, incorporating racially-robust content into the curriculum, and establishing the infrastructure to support students when reporting incidents of bias and discrimination.
Williams is an Ambassador Fellow for When We All Vote (WWAV), a national, non-partisan organization that aims to bridge the race and age disparities in voter registration and voter turnout.
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