![]() ![]() The book, which came out this week, is filled with the stories of young women around the world who are doing things big and small to change their own circumstances, their communities, and the world - and most importantly, how they grew their own confidence and resilience to overcome challenges along the way. In the book’s pages, we meet Melati and Isabel Wijsen, the Indonesian sisters at the forefront of an international campaign to remove plastic from the oceans Gitanjali Rao, the teen who invented a device to detect lead in water using a smartphone in response to the Flint, Michigan water crisis Aaron Philip, the disabled and transgender rights activist who became the first trans Black disabled model to be signed to a major agency and Yekaba Abimbola, an Ethiopian girl who cultivated the community support to get out of a marriage her father had arranged for her at age 12. ![]() ![]() “We know that the best role models for girls can often be not their parents, but other girls,” Shipman told NBC News’ Know Your Value. ![]()
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