Glamour's 20 Amazing Young Women Who Are Already Changing the World

Earlier this month, Glamour Magazine held its 20th annual Women of the Year Awards to celebrate some of this year's most amazing and inspiring women. In addition to Women of the Year awardees Fergie, Julia Roberts, Queen Rania, Dr. Hawa Abdi and her daughters, our world's female heads of state, Cher, Katie Spotz, Lisa Leslie, Mia Hamm, Lindsey Vonn, Donatella Versace and Constance McMillen, Glamour also honored 20 Amazing Young Women Who Are Already Changing the World. Below are exclusive interviews with these 20 trailblazing women (including myself and my co-founders at Her Campus). Let us know what you think of their incredible work in the comments section.

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Maritza R. Alarcón

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Website: move-nyc.org Your "claim to fame" - aka why you were part of Glamour's 20 Amazing Young Women!: Maritza was honored by Glamour because she co-created the MOVE program. According to move-nyc.org, the MOVE Program’s mission is:

Motivation Opportunity Viability Enterprise, Inc. (MOVE) is a leading youth organization aimed at increasing college matriculation rates at NYC public high schools. In 2007, we founded MOVE in our final year of college and chose to finance this start-up initiative out-of-pocket. Today, MOVE is a fully funded organization run by many of these same individuals and engages hundreds of young altruistic professionals. We share many of the same attributes and backgrounds as our students, which has helped us develop a holistic college preparatory program tailored for low-income students. With your partnership, we have the opportunity to bring about systemic change that will have an enduring effect on the lives of New York’s City's underprivileged youth.

Explained on the front page of the site are ways to donate to the program. A sample of how your donation to the program will help students: $25 will purchase an SAT prep text book, $50, a scholar’s first college visit and $100 will fund a monthly development workshop session.

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Website:
move-nyc.org

Your "claim to fame" - aka why you were part of Glamour's 20 Amazing Young Women!:
Maritza was honored by Glamour because she co-created the MOVE program.

According to move-nyc.org, the MOVE Program’s mission is:

Motivation Opportunity Viability Enterprise, Inc. (MOVE) is a leading youth organization aimed at increasing college matriculation rates at NYC public high schools. In 2007, we founded MOVE in our final year of college and chose to finance this start-up initiative out-of-pocket. Today, MOVE is a fully funded organization run by many of these same individuals and engages hundreds of young altruistic professionals. We share many of the same attributes and backgrounds as our students, which has helped us develop a holistic college preparatory program tailored for low-income students. With your partnership, we have the opportunity to bring about systemic change that will have an enduring effect on the lives of New York’s City's underprivileged youth.

Explained on the front page of the site are ways to donate to the program. A sample of how your donation to the program will help students: $25 will purchase an SAT prep text book, $50, a scholar’s first college visit and $100 will fund a monthly development workshop session.

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[cf01]

04:24 PM on 11/27/2010

Fashion Bloggers and co-founders of yet more nonprofits.

While Spelman College fields a winning robotics development team, "SpelBots Robotics Team, the first all-women and African American undergraduate team to compete in the International RoboCup Four-Legged Soccer Competition in Osaka, Japan (2005) and Bremen, Germany (2006). We earned 2nd place in the RoboCup 2007 Atlanta Technical Challenge Passing Challenge event. In 2009 we accomplished a tie in the Championship match of the RoboCup Japan Open 2009 Osaka Standard Platform League Nao Humanoid robot soccer competition. We also successfully participated in the RoboCup 2010 Mediterranean Open."

http://www.theroot.com/views/spelman-college-students-win-national-mobile-app-competition

[cherieamour]

12:57 AM on 11/27/2010

...congrats to these young ladies...

...i love Zim's hairstyle!...go grrrl!!

[underthesea]

11:25 AM on 11/26/2010

always happy to see such progressive and confident young women! Regardless of what we see everyday on telly or read on papers, there truly is beauty out there. Slowly, silently, people are changing this world. And it makes my heart very glad.

[lockDown]

10:57 PM on 11/24/2010

Kudos.

[RasputinsLiver]

09:01 PM on 11/24/2010

They all seem like fine young women. Good on them.

But that Tavi, she's got that nerdish hipster quirkiness that's just too cool for words, man.

[Chris Choi]

06:57 PM on 11/24/2010

Jess Posner (http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/meet-2010-do-something-awards-finalist-jessica-posnerc) should absolutely be on this list

[ayisha]

06:43 PM on 11/24/2010

Congrats to all the young women doing so much to make a positive change in the world. and then there's Tavi... who blogs about fashion. not discounting her success in making a name for herself... but she really does not belong on this list.

[Wintersoldier7020]

08:14 PM on 11/24/2010

I felt the same way about the fashion blogger ...means nothing.

[one1byke]

06:03 PM on 11/24/2010

Capri Anderson.... hello!

anybody with me?

[onalimb]

06:00 PM on 11/24/2010

Great women!
There are so many others.
One I would add is Ms. Barnes - Through Future Eyes.
http://www.throughfutureeyes.org/

[Greta Howe]

05:12 PM on 11/24/2010

Thank you for posting an article which focuses on these young women and their life-affirming achievements. The women profiled here are role models for us all, and especially for young girls looking for an inspiration of how they might also change the world for better. The last thing they need to see is yet another young person who achieves fame & riches for nothing more than being a controversial public figure's daughter. More stuff like this, please!

[deluk]

01:09 PM on 11/24/2010

Where's Letizia?