CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – As a high school junior, Nori Carter gave a speech to the student body at St. Anne’s-Belfield during a mental health forum about the importance of destigmatizing having divorced or separated parents. She wanted to help fellow students navigated what she knew first-hand could be difficult times.
But Carter’s effort didn’t end with her address that day. She went on to launch a club at the school, “the Splits.”
It’s an example of how Carter turns her passion into action, and why she was selected as the winner of the Emily Couric Leadership Scholarship…