The most powerful woman you've never heard of - T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison
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Do you know the woman Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called "the architect of the civil rights movement," Septima Clark? The teacher of some of the generation's most legendary activists, Clark laid out a blueprint for change-making. Now T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison, the cofounders of GirlTrek, are taking a page from Clark's playbook to launch a health revolution in the US.
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