2023 FOCUS ON YOUTH
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SANCTUARY is committed to helping young women with promising, future careers gain exposure and share their passions with a broader community. Each year, our August issue is dedicated to young women who inspire others with their extraordinary talents and service to their communities.
After careful consideration, SANCTUARY has chosen a group of amazing, young women to feature in our 8th annual "Focus on Youth" issue. These young women have demonstrated outstanding commitment to their community or craft. |
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FEATURED EMERGING YOUNG WOMEN
We asked each of our featured young women the following question:
Please name a historical figure whose life's works have inspired you in some way.
Please name a historical figure whose life's works have inspired you in some way.
Mary-Elizabeth Boatey
Photographer My all-time, favorite historical photographer is the timeless Diane Arbus. The beauty of the unordinary and the personality of the different is displayed in such an ornamental light, pushing the theme of unity. Her images challenge the typical notion of what is beautiful. I, too, admire and am in awe of the unique, and this is something I pursue in my own work; finding something peculiar and eye-catching has become a fundamental trait in my own day to day life.
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Nikki Gal
Entrepreneur & Mental Health Advocate Artist Andy Warhol has been a never-ending creative influence within my work and my life. I still remember at 14 years old becoming inspired with his work while studying his life in school, and I never stopped. To this day, I still admire him for his creative ventures and unstoppable pursuits within the art world.
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Olive Harrington
Photographer Before I became infatuated with photography, I spent a lot of time making collages from my dad’s old magazines. I would tear, cut, arrange, and rearrange until the composition and message felt complete. I took a photography class at school and abandoned my collage practices. In my head, my collages and photography stood in two separate realms. It wasn’t until I discovered the famous work of Robert Rauschenberg that this sentiment changed, and I was able to truly find my own artistic voice and vision. His “combine” pieces inspired me to start exploring digital and physical manipulations of my photos, which was similar to my collage work. I now see all the possibilities photography holds.
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Lona Tarakji
Poet Elizabeth Blackwell inspires me. She was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. She had to apply to many medical colleges which denied her admission. The school that finally accepted her did it as a joke. She did very well with her studies, so she could work as a doctor when it was not acceptable for a woman to work in this profession. She opened her own private practice for women to learn to become physicians after she completed her studies in London and Paris. I admire how kind she always was to her patients. I hope to become a doctor like her. Her hard work and dedication inspires me to work hard to achieve my dreams.
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Kai Tomizawa
Filmmaker Esther Eng is somebody I only learned about a year ago. She was a Cantonese American, openly lesbian filmmaker in the 1930s. She made ten feature films in the U.S., and at one point, was the only female director working in the country. Yet she’s rarely mentioned today. I learned who she was in one of those internet rabbit holes and felt like I had discovered fairies in my backyard. Her mere existence and disappearance from the history books inspires me to keep making films.
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SPECIAL THANKS
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Jillian Crocetta is a regular contributor for Sanctuary and works as assistant editor for this special issue each year. Besides writing the feature interview with Nikki Gal, Jillian wrote "Here's What Twentysomethings Desire in Workplace Culture." She also helped to plan the issue and worked on overall theme and vision.
Thank you, Jillian, for your hard work and keen eye developing content for our youth audience. |
