Student Wins $100,000 to Educate Honduran Youth

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October 22nd, 2012

Katia Gomez, School of Public Health alumni, took the top prize at the nationally televised VH1Do Something! Awards, which honors young adults for their social change projects. Gomez won a trophy and a $100,000 grant—for creating Educate2Envision, a nongovernmental organization that helps build schools and educate impoverished children, particularly girls, in central Honduras.