February 2012
3 posts
The Lone Star State
The second most populous state in the nation, Texas, entices visitors with the proud claim “It’s like a whole other country!” While women make up half the population of this unique and politically important state, their voices are grossly underrepresented on the political stage. In 2011 Texas ranked 35th in the country in terms of the proportion of women in the state legislature, with women...
Leadership Spotlight: Meet Jenny Le
As a second generation Vietnamese-American, Jenny Le of Houston, Texas, had to strike a balance between growing up in America and assisting her parents in navigating a culture that was foreign to them, but not to her. Today as a Harvard University Government major, Le uses lessons from her childhood in her studies of comparative and international policy, and hopes to create more effective laws...