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| The Borgen Project is a nonprofit organization which works to make global poverty a focus of U.S. foreign policy. It fights global poverty by advocating for poverty-related legislation and issues. These critical issues include starvation and global food security; newborn, child and mother survival; access to clean water and sanitation; improving healthcare globally and eradicating diseases such as HIV and TB; promoting girls’ and women’s education and empowerment; and much more. The Borgen Project’s work and advocacy has had great success in recent years, including helping to pass the Electrify Africa Act, which has resulted in more than 58 million people gaining access to electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa by January 2019. Currently, it is building support for a number of bills, including the Girls’ Leadership, Engagement, Agency, and Development (LEAD) Act, which Congressman Dean Phillips has recently cosponsored, along with 44 other House Representatives. This bipartisan act will create and promote opportunities for girls’ education, civic engagement, and political participation around the world. Morgan Turner is a 2017 Wayzata High School graduate and Borgen Project advocate in Maple Grove and Wayzata. She is currently a senior student-athlete at DePaul University in Chicago, where she is studying Political Science and Sociology and plays on the DePaul Women’s Soccer team. To learn more about the organization, please visit borgenproject.org. | |
