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Posted: Thursday, March 22, 2012 12:00 am
The Black Girl Project: Aiesha Turman treats the whole girl By AMBER TAFARI LARAQUE Special to the AmNews New York Amsterdam News |
During Women’s History Month, it is important not only celebrate the great women who have impacted society and our personal lives, but to remember to encourage young girls to become those great women. Aiesha Turman, founder of the organization the Black Girl Project, makes that her mission every day of the year for young Black girls.
Starting out in the creative industry, Turman worked in fields such as marketing and eventually found her calling in teaching. She recalled a teaching situation where 70 percent of her students were girls and how she became the person the girls could talk to. The girls felt like no subject was off limits with Turman.
“I’m definitely nonjudgmental,” she said.
“The best way to teach something is to immerse yourself,” Turman went on to say. And immerse herself she did.