Early last week junior Lauren Winston won the Princeton Award of Race Relations and will be visiting Princeton University in April to talk to other winners of this award in 27 different regions about race relations.
“Lauren is being recognized for her commitment to building bridges and improving race relations at SME and beyond,” the SME Office posted to Instagram March 21.
Since 2003 the award has been given out to applicants across the country. Currently, there are 27 different regions where high school students can win the award with that number continuously increasing, according to the Princeton Award of Race Relations website.
To be eligible for the award you must submit an application stating what activity or project you created that helped to improve race relations in your community.
Winston is in charge of creating Bridges KC. This organization helps educate the students and faculty of East about diversity and cultures by bringing in guest speakers. It also helps bring students of different backgrounds together. One thing Bridges KC has done in the past is bring in Dr. Sofia Khan to the school to speak about her Muslim faith.
Winston also participated in Jack and Jill, a project that focuses on race relations and being in the African-American community.
“I think [race relations] is important to me because it’s always been a big part of my life in one way or another,” Winston said. “I have mainly grown up in a white community. So it’s always an opportunity to provide a positive image of people that come from different races that other people may not know about.”
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