Students To Host Empowerment Panel

Camas – Camas High School juniors Rachel Blair and Tsering Shola represented Girls Learn International and the Feminist Majority Foundation as youth delegates at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York City in March. The two were inspired by their work with other young women, activists and international leaders, and want to bring what they learned back to their community. They are organizing a Women’s Empowerment Panel at 6:30 p.m.

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