The Washington Post – Emily Heil
“An entry for a normal highschooler’s what-I-did-on-my-summer-vacation diary: visit Capitol Hill with the fam, pose for cheesy pics, roll eyes. But what if we’re talking about a Nobel Prize-winning teen whose activism on behalf of girls’ rights has won her worldwide fame? Then it goes a little more like this: meet with lawmakers and top female staffers, lobby for increased funding for girls’ education, take photos that will go on said congresspeople’s brag walls. Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani 17 year-old who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban, spent part of her break from high school making the rounds on the Hill on Tuesday, where the slate of offices she visited included those of Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), and Reps. Kay Granger (R-Tex.) and Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.).”(more)