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The Student Voice of MSU Denver
Volume 38, Issue 8
October 1, 2015
Race for the Cure turns Auraria Parkway pink
Ami Bigler-Redd strides toward on the 5k finish line at Denver’s Race for the Cure Sept. 27. Redd participated in honor of a friend, who survived breast cancer. Photo by Michel Hansen • mevans41@msudenver.
Denver center empowers growing girls Story and photo by Deanna Hirsch dhirsch6@msudenver.edu
We make plans and the universe laughs, or so the saying goes for Carrie Webber, manager of volunteer programs for Girls
Inc. A national nonprofit with a Colorado chapter in the West Colfax neighborhood, the mission of Girls Inc. is to “inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold.” “I studied journalism at Central Michigan University,” Webber says. “I worked as a journalist
for a while. It was not the way I wanted to give back to the world.” Webber, who was always passionate about social justice, left a career in journalism for something more, not necessarily sure of what. After a brief stint as a ski bum in Summit County,
Webber came back to Denver and worked in the HIV community. From there, she discovered an opening with Girls Inc. and a niche she’s loved for the past two years.
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