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"Her dream: &amp;amp;#8220;To be chief policy adviser to the president on human rights&amp;amp;#8212;that would be a very cool job. Or Supreme Court justice. Or both! But not at the same time.&amp;amp;#8221; Why she&amp;amp;#8217;s amazing: Confino&amp;amp;#8217;s interest in women&amp;amp;#8217;s issues started in middle school, when her activist mom started sharing newspaper articles about world events with her and her sister. &amp;amp;#8220;I was shocked to learn that girls my age faced forced marriage and human trafficking,&amp;amp;#8221; she says. So in 2003 she founded Girls Learn International (GLI) to teach her classmates about conditions for young women around the globe and to enlist them to help improve education in troubled countries. &amp;amp;#8220;If a girl doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t even know how to write her name, how is she going to take a stand against the way things are?&amp;amp;#8221; says the psychology major. Today GLI funds 84 chapters in the U.S. that offer student exchange programs and financial support to 31 classrooms in developing countries like India, Nepal and Tanzania. And she still manages to maintain a 3.9 GPA at Yale! Her motto: &amp;amp;#8220;Girls&amp;amp;#8217; rights are human rights. It&amp;amp;#8217;s my spin on Hillary Clinton&amp;amp;#8217;s famous statement that women&amp;amp;#8217;s rights are human rights.&amp;amp;#8221; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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