Source: https://issuu.com/madeiratoday/docs/madeira_today_summer_2019 “Madeira Students Already Changing the World” – Madeira Today Tarina Ahuja, the recipient of the 2019 Katherine Kies ’07 Pink Award was featured in the Madeira Today 200 issue special edition magazine. Page 28-29 for details.
Source: https://www.ndi.org/our-stories/2019-madeleine-k-albright-luncheon-celebrating-women-global-risk-takers “Success without democracy is improbable; democracy without women is impossible,” ~Madeleine K. Albright What has become more than just a signature event for NDI, the annual Madeleine K. Albright Luncheon brings together women of diverse backgrounds to recognize the strides women have made in politics and to support women empowerment. This year, the…
Source: https://www.madeira.org/news/details/2019-pink-award-winner-to-create-advocacy-app/#.XN7XTo4zbIV Hi – so this just happened. I was awarded the 2019 PINK Award during this year’s Reunion Weekend All School Meeting at my school. My plan is to use the grant to create what I call ‘Advoc8’ the app made for activists. Without going too much into detail, my project will be the creation of…
Source: http://www.alexandriagazette.com/news/2018/jul/13/opinion-letter-editor-teenagers-organize-rally-reu/?templates=mobile In light of the humanitarian crisis on the border, high school students were not able to sit back and watch people struggle and suffer. Virginia teenagers, Tarina Ahuja, Perrin McHugh, and Bee Hyland, organized a rally titled “Rally to Reunite” that took place in front of the ICE building in Fairfax. The event…
Source: http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/fairfax_county/local-students-rally-to-reunite-families-separated-at-border/article_5a79175c-86ca-11e8-9b15-0b9720451ceb.html Tarina Ahuja is fed up with feeling helpless. The Madeira School rising 11th grader saw videos of crying immigrant parents and children who had been separated at the U.S.’s southern border on the news one day and decided she had to do something. After a flurry of brainstorming and texting, Ahuja and her…