D. LACY ASBILL
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Lacy Asbill is the founding director of Girls Moving Forward, a holistic
tutoring and mentoring organization dedicated to fostering girls' academic
growth and self-esteem. You can learn more about Lacy and Girls Moving
Forward at http://www.girlsmovingforward.com.
My degree in Human Sexuality Studies helped facilitate my "sociological
imagination": I learned that problems that feel very personal are
guided by strong social forces. This kind of imagination allows me to
understand why almost every girl I sit down with lacks confidence in her
math skills, or why parents feel helpless when their daughters lose self-confidence
during adolescence. Even though these feel like individuals failings or
concerns, I can see how strongly social messages influence girls' development
over their lives.
