Author: Heila Rogers
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Empowering woman: Colorado College student founds nonprofit to address period poverty on Indian reservation
A Native American youth leadership summit at Cherokee Ranch & Castle in Sedalia, partly organized by members of the tribes of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, brought together then Castle View High School student Mackenzie Boyd and other youth to compare differences and overlapping similarities in their lives. Mackenzie Boyd projectdistributingdignity.org That was the beginning…
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Empowering woman: Colorado College student founds nonprofit to address period poverty on Indian reservation
A Native American youth leadership summit at Cherokee Ranch & Castle in Sedalia, partly organized by members of the tribes of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, brought together then Castle View High School student Mackenzie Boyd and other youth to compare differences and overlapping similarities in their lives. Mackenzie Boyd projectdistributingdignity.org That was the beginning…
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Empowering woman: Colorado College student founds nonprofit to address period poverty on Indian reservation
A Native American youth leadership summit at Cherokee Ranch & Castle in Sedalia, partly organized by members of the tribes of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, brought together then Castle View High School student Mackenzie Boyd and other youth to compare differences and overlapping similarities in their lives. Mackenzie Boyd projectdistributingdignity.org That was the beginning…
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Empowering woman: Castle Rock native founds nonprofit to address period poverty on Indian reservation
A Native American youth leadership summit at Cherokee Ranch & Castle in Sedalia, partly organized by members of the tribes of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, brought together then Castle View High School student Mackenzie Boyd and other youth to compare differences and overlapping similarities in their lives. Mackenzie Boyd projectdistributingdignity.org That was the beginning…
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A powerful sense of connection: Colorado Springs resident Peggy Shivers has inspired others in the community to do good (Part 3 of 3)
Editor’s note: This is the final installment of a three-part series written from interviews with Colorado Springs resident Peggy Shivers, who shares a behind-the-scenes story of the Tuskegee statue that decorates the grounds at the United States Air Force Academy, the first eight years of her life in an all-Black community in Center Point, Texas…
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A powerful sense of connection: Colorado Springs resident Peggy Shivers has inspired others in the community to do good (Part 3 of 3)
Editor’s note: This is the final installment of a three-part series written from interviews with Colorado Springs resident Peggy Shivers, who shares a behind-the-scenes story of the Tuskegee statue that decorates the grounds at the United States Air Force Academy, the first eight years of her life in an all-Black community in Center Point, Texas…
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Uplifting community: Opportunities in music and education in rural Texas helped to shape the career of Colorado Springs resident Peggy Shivers (Part 2 of 3)
Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a three-part series written from interviews with Colorado Springs resident Peggy Shivers, who shares a behind-the-scenes story of the Tuskegee statue that decorates the grounds at the United States Air Force Academy, the first eight years of her life in an all-Black community in Center Point, Texas…
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Uplifting community: Opportunities in music and education in rural Texas helped to shape the career of Colorado Springs resident Peggy Shivers (Part 2 of 3)
Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a three-part series written from interviews with Colorado Springs resident Peggy Shivers, who shares a behind-the-scenes story of the Tuskegee statue that decorates the grounds at the United States Air Force Academy, the first eight years of her life in an all-Black community in Center Point, Texas…
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Sculpting history: The story behind the Tuskegee Airman statue at the Air Force Academy, as told by Colorado Springs resident Peggy Shivers (Part 1 of 3)
Editor’s note: This is the first installment of a three-part series written from interviews with Colorado Springs resident Peggy Shivers, who shares a behind-the-scenes story of the Tuskegee statue that now decorates the grounds at the United States Air Force Academy, the first eight years of her life in an all-Black community in Center Point,…
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Sculpting history: The story behind the Tuskegee Airman statue at the Air Force Academy, as told by Colorado Springs resident Peggy Shivers (Part 1 of 3)
Editor’s note: This is the first installment of a three-part series written from interviews with Colorado Springs resident Peggy Shivers, who shares a behind-the-scenes story of the Tuskegee statue that now decorates the grounds at the United States Air Force Academy, the first eight years of her life in an all-Black community in Center Point,…