Teen Activist of the Month

Teen Voices, an international magazine for young women, featured Shannon for her work with SHARE in the April 2009 issue. ACTIVIST OF THE MONTH: Shannon McNamara Started Her Own Reading Program...in Africa!

Teen Voices is an intensive journalism mentoring and leadership development program for teen girls whose mission is to support and educate teen girls to amplify their voices and create social change through media. Through its program, teen girls create an internationally distributed print and online alternative magazine reaching 45,000 readers worldwide and receiving over 200,000 annual pageviews from 175 countries.