
Her Campus is providing exceptional female students at Wilfrid Laurier University an opportunity to receive the recognition they deserve.
This year, Her Campus has launched their first annual search for the 22 Under 22 Most Inspiring College Women, a list that aims to recognize female undergraduate students who have made exceptional contributions to their campus communities and beyond.
โWeโre trying to find 22 women who are currently enrolled in undergraduate education that are really doing inspiring things, so whether thatโs starting something on campus thatโs really taken off, or giving back internationally, just really doing something thatโs inspiring to their peers and mentors, etc.,โ said Brittany Lewis, director of community development and strategic planning with Her Campus.
โOur goal here is to really highlight those women, through profiles on our site, hopefully some gifts from our sponsors and partners. Itโs really just inspiring others with their stories and providing them with the recognition they deserve.โ
Applications can be submitted on behalf of yourself or someone else through the Her Campus website until May 31.
โWhether you started a campus club, or youโre involved in something academic on your campus, theyโre just really trying to find women who are well rounded, and who are pursuing things that theyโre passionate,โ said Her Campus Laurier editor Elyse Mulhall. โHere they can feature them, and say, โhey, this is someone who goes to your school theyโre doing such an incredible job.โโ
Though Her Campus Laurier is a relatively new chapter, its members are confident Laurier undergraduates have a shot at winning.
โWe have so many students who are so involved and theyโre so passionate about different things. If we could get even one student who was even nominated, that would be fantastic,โ said Mulhall.
Her Campus is an online publication formed by three students at Harvard University, which in the past years has grown to become a global community for women with millions of monthly users from across the globe.
The Laurier chapter of Her Campus was formed in April 2014 by two undergraduate students, and has been rapidly expanding since its launch, with online articles varying from beauty advice and fashion tips accessible to all undergraduate women to campus-specific student profiles and St. Patrickโs Day content.
โSo far itโs been really supportive,โ said Mulhall. โThe presence when we started was really receptive and the response from the students was really positive, so now weโre just trying to keep that focus up and sort of gear more articles towards what students want to see more of on campus.โ
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