Sofia Caballero Stafford is a junior at Duke University double majoring in global health and cultural anthropology, focusing on disparities in adolescent girls’ health and development. She is southeast regional lead for Girl Up, where she was previously a teen advisor and helped start the coalition model. At Duke, she founded the Girls’ Hub leadership development program for high school students, is a columnist for The Duke Chronicle, and is content manager for student social media channels. In 2015, Stafford lived and studied global health, race, and human rights in Salvador, Brazil. She is a summer intern for USAID working on the Saving Lives at Birth initiative.
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The idea that investing in girls is the single most effective investment available to spur economic development and end global poverty has become a widely popular notion. And...