Yasmine Arington Brooks ’15, was a junior in high school when she started a grassroots nonprofit scholarship program for children with incarcerated parents. Now she is an honoree of the L’Oréal Paris USA Women of Worth award.
The L’Oréal Paris USA Women of Worth award recognizes 10 women who demonstrate leadership, innovation, and service as well as those who are driving transformative change across the United States through their non-profit organizations.
“I’m really grateful, especially in a time like this, because this type of visibility and of course you know the sisterhood that comes with it, and just meeting amazing women who are, who have just beautiful hearts and they’re doing incredible things in their communities,” Brooks said. “But this type of visibility, it’s rare, it’s a rare type of thing to happen in the nonprofit sector, especially if you’re not especially, if you started a nonprofit from the ground up.”…