Morgan Abbott of Raleigh, a senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, won a John H. Barnhill Trailblazer Award from the North Carolina Campus Compact.
Abbot was one of two students who received the award, which is presented to students who exemplify the ability to inspire a campus to address the issues and needs of the surrounding community.
Abbott is double-majoring in public policy and religious studies, with a minor in entrepreneurship.
She founded Carolina for Amani to make adoption in Kenya more efficient, accessible and safe. In the summer of 2011 and 2010, Abbott led a team of UNC students in a project to update and digitize adoption files and psychosocial reports for 350 children in in New Life Home orphanages in Kenya.
Carolina for Amani is funded by an Entrepreneurial Public Service Fellowship awarded to Abbot by the Carolina Center for Public Service, and the Jason Norris Award in Entrepreneurship given by the UNC College of Arts and Sciences, the Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative and the minor in entrepreneurship.
To learn more about Abbott’s project, visit www.morganabbott.com. For more information about the Entrepreneurial Public Service Fellowship, visit http://www.unc.edu/apples/students/fellowships/index.html.
