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AWP Founder Named One of Glamour Magazine’s 21 Amazing Young Women of 2011

by American Widow Project
Nov 04, 2011

Meet Our 21 Amazing Young Women of 2011

To celebrate the twenty–first anniversary of Women of the Year, Glamour’s November 7 ceremony will recognize 21 young women who are already making a huge difference in the world. Among them are this year’s two Readers’ Choice winners, who thousands of YOU voted for. Let’s meet them all!

BRIANNA AMAT, 17: The first girl to play on her Michigan high school’s varsity football team, she was also the homecoming queen—and scored that game’s winning field goal.

KATHERINE BOMKAMP, 19: She invented and patented a prosthetic device that could eliminate phantom–limb pain in amputees.

SHREE BOSE,…

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