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Author: Ember Penney

Ember Penney is a senior at Woods Charter School and and co-lead of Woods Charter School's Girls Learn International (GLI) chapter. She has been working with GLI since middle school. Although Ember hasn't committed to a college yet, she plans to study biology and environmental science.
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Teenagers in North Carolina Call For an End to Child Marriage

Samana Young and Ember Penney
Teenagers in North Carolina Call For an End to Child Marriage

We are two high school seniors, both age 17, from Chatham County, North Carolina. These days we split our time between online school, our extracurriculars and hanging out with friends. Marriage is the last thing on our minds.

Instead of leaving it to adults to say what is and is not in our best interest, let’s tell them ourselves: End child marriage.

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