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Walnut High Grad Selected for Student Leaders Program

Avika Dua was one of 225 high school students nationwide to receive an internship through the 2013 Bank of America Student Leaders Program.

Recent Walnut High School graduate Avika Dua was one of 225 students nationwide to be awarded an eight-week paid internship at a local nonprofit.

The teen received the internship through her participation in the 2013 Bank of America Student Leaders Program, according to a news release.

Dua will be interning with Inland Valley Hope Partners.

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She was picked for the program because of her accomplishments during high school, including serving as chief executive officer of the nonprofit humanitarian organization For All Mankind, founder and deputy director of Southern California Students Organizing for America, and chairperson and founder for the Habitat for Humanity Youth Events Committee.

Dua also was one of the valedictorians for the Walnut High graduating class of 2013.

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Bank of America launched its Student Leaders Program in 2004 to give high school students a chance to work at a nonprofit in their local community.

"Despite gains in the overall job market, it is teens that still have the highest unemployment rate with one out of every seven young people not being in school or working," Bank of America officials said in a news release.  

Besides the internship, all of the students traveled to Washington D.C. this week to attend the Bank of America Summit. The event's activities include a service learning project and a series of interactive workshop, including Capitol Hill briefings and sessions on financial education and leadership development skills. 

 

 

 


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