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Dasia Taylor didn't expect to become a nationally recognized scientist at 17 years old.
The Iowa student has dedicated her life to equity work, from serving as one of her school district's diversity equity leaders to participating in her high school's Black History Game Show club. But when her junior year chemistry teacher at Iowa City West High School, Carolyn Walling, was recruiting students for the Science Fair club, Taylor signed up, fascinated by the prospect of answering her own research question -- and incorporating economic equity into science by trying to remove financial barriers to medical treatment.More Related News
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