Last week, Philanthropiece Youth Global Leader Emily Robertson earned First Place honors at Monarch High School’s Art Contest in the photography division for this photo that she took en route to Laguna San Ignacio, Baja, Mexico. Emily is passionate about both photography and sustainable community development. She is combining her interests in her YGL Individual Growth Project, for which she is designing a program in which teen girls in Chajul create photo documentaries of their lives at the outset of their high school experience, and again upon their graduation. Emily believes that photography has the power to both share our stories and to empower us as individuals. Congratulations, Emily!
