Her piece segues into the story and factors behind Haley’s decision to lower the Confederate flag from the South Carolina State House. Garre’s powerful essay opened with the story about a racial profiling incident endured by Haley’s father, Ajit Singh Randhawa, when she was a child. The first female governor in South Carolina history, Haley is the daughter of Indian immigrants. This year’s submissions came from Canada, India, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan in addition to the U.S. students under the age of 20 enrolled in a high school correspondence/GED program in any of the 50 states, the District of Columbia or the U.S. Profile in Courage Give this article By Ted Widmer JAN UNFINISHED LIFE John F. high school students in grades 9 to 12 attending public, private, parochial or home schools U.S. The JFK Profile in Courage Essay Contest is open to U.S. “When I submitted my essay, I was thinking it was good, but I wasn’t expecting that I would win something.” It tells the story of Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, and her decision to remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina State House grounds. Garre’s essay, titled “Moving Forward: Nikki Haley,” was the only piece selected from the state of Massachusetts. Kennedy Profile in Courage Essay Contest, the JFK Library announced recently. CHELMSFORD - Akhila Garre, a rising senior at Chelmsford High School, received honorable mention honors - placing among the top 25 out of 2,474 submissions - in the John F.
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