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2021 fellow
Laura Ribeiro Fernandes do Rosário
Brazil
Laura is passionate about protecting the environment and women’s rights around the world. She has been working with Empodera, an NGO that promotes girls’ empowerment through sports, since 2017. For her Rise project, Laura worked on spreading awareness about the environmental crisis by collecting information about sustainable lifestyles and trying to enlist the help of similarly-minded artists and politicians. She received a medal at the OBMEP (Brazilian Mathematics Olympiad for Public Schools) and plans to pursue a degree in computer science.