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Ever since fifth grade, Elizabeth Newell dreamed of attending Columbia University. Her childhood hero, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is an alum, and she wanted to follow in her footsteps. Now a Columbia sophomore, Elizabeth is passionate about justice and making our world a better place. Elizabeth comes from a small town in Missouri and grew up surrounded by conservative Christian culture. As she got older, she says she “began to recognize that a lot of the people who described thems