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2024 Spring Changemakers Project : Choose Your Topic

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Project Overview:

For this project, you will research and present on a real-life example of a person or group of changemakers in a society, drawing connections to the themes and characters explored in Julia Alvarez's Before We Were Free.

Choose Your Topic:

Select one of the following examples to focus your research on:

  • Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani advocate for women's education
  • Greta Thunberg, a Swedish advocate for climate mitigation
  • Nadia Murad, a Yazidi (Iraqi) human rights activist fighting against genocide
  • Autumn Peltier, an indigenous Canadian activist who has focused on water pollution
  • Zitkálála-Ša (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin), a Yankton Dakota activist for indigenous rights
  • Constance Baker Motley, a civil rights attorney, judge and major activist in the civil rights movement.
  • Anne Frank, a Jewish author best known for the diary she kept during the Holocaust
  • Betty Friedan, an American activist for women's rights