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Anea Moore, C'19, Finds Purpose and Community Amid Loss

Jill DiSanto

Penn News

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Halfway through Anea Moore’s first semester as a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania, she lost her mother to a heart attack, just months after losing her father to lung disease. Through that grief, she has found a way to heal by reaching out to help others.

Now a sophomore at Penn, Moore’s community-engagement efforts earned her the 2017 Undergraduate Student Award from Penn Women of Color and the Newman Civic Scholars Fellowship.

 

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