Nine Lehigh students were chosen to present at the United Nation’s Commission on the Status of Women global conference this March. Lehigh students have never had the opportunity to present at this annual conference, which is attended by over 1,000 of the world’s top female political and societal leaders. The students are representatives for six non-governmental organizations, five of which have never had a voice at this conference before.
The student representatives working on these presentations are from all four colleges and are both graduate and undergraduate students. Bill Hunter, the director of International Outreach, said that the United Nations Youth Representative program was based on Lehigh’s 2008 program model. Now, there are over 400 young people around the world serving in this capacity, but Lehigh still has the world’s largest contingent with 28 representatives. Presenter De’Anna Daniels, ’14, said that the diversity of students committed to this cause resembles the diversity of the United Nations. “The most diversity I’ve ever seen at Lehigh has been in this Lehigh-UN partnership,” Daniels said. “That’s great and important. We’re representing these diverse NGOs, so it’s great to see so many diverse people at Lehigh committed to it.”
 

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