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Margo Karle Scholarships 05-06

Collette Carter is a Black Queer Womyn pursuing her second BA at Brooklyn College in Film Production. (She earned her first degree at Spelman College). She plans to use film to celebrate the lives of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming (LGBTSTGNC) People of Color communities. An avid volunteer, she is a former board member of African Ancestral Lesbians United for Societal Change and a former editorial board member and contributor to SABLE Magazine, a Lesbian of Color bimonthly online publication. Collette is currently the coordinator of the Audre Lorde Project's People of Color Leaders Roundtable. $1,000

Shormin Hussain is pursuing a BA in Political Science at Queens College. A first generation immigrant from Bangladesh, she is passionate about social justice and community organizing. She served as the Youth Media Organizer at DRUM-Desis Rising Up and Moving, and was influential in the creation of their Education Not Deportation campaign for immigrant students' rights. She also coordinated DRUM's Desi Reel Newz Project which trains low income South Asian youth in grassroots organizing for immigrants' rights and racial justice through community video and documentation. Shormin hopes to attend law school and become an immigration lawyer. $1,000

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