Glamour magazine picks ASU student for Top 10 College Women list

<p>Life couldn’t get much more glamourous for Megan McGinnity, an ASU senior from Mesa. She’s featured in the June 2007 issue of <em>Glamour</em> magazine as one of “Glamour’s Top 10 College Women.”</p><separator></separator><p>McGinnity, 22, is a petite political science and economics major who is working to stop human slave trafficking worldwide. A year ago, she visited 10 countries to collect data for her honors thesis on how to strengthen anti-trafficking programs.</p><separator></separator><p><img src="http://www.asu.edu/news/stories/200706/images/20070606_mcginnity.jpg&qu…; alt="Megan McGinnity, an ASU senior from Mesa. " hspace="5" vspace="5" width="300" height="231" align="right">McGinnity once spent eight months working in a Romanian orphanage while studying in Romania on scholarship. She later met former child slaves in Ghana, where she found her calling: putting an end to the buying and selling of human beings as slaves.</p><separator></separator><p>McGinnity is a courageous volunteer who also created a Model United Nations program for middle school students shortly after enrolling at ASU.</p><separator></separator><p>She currently is in Egypt studying Arabic, and after graduation she plans on a career in diplomacy. In fact, in the article she says her goal is to be U.S. Secretary of State.</p><separator></separator><p>McGinnity graduated from Mesa’s Mountain View High School in 2003. She has a 4.0 grade-point average at ASU, and last spring she won a $30,000 Truman Scholarship, the nation’s highest undergraduate leadership award.</p><separator></separator><p>Following ASU graduation next May, McGinnity plans to enter a joint master’s program in foreign service and economics at Georgetown University.</p><separator></separator><p>For the past 50 years, <em>Glamour </em>has saluted the most outstanding young female leaders on America’s campuses, many of whom have gone on to achieve remarkable success. Martha Stewart was a 1961 winner from Barnard College. The article is online at <a href="http://www.glamour.com/news/articles/2007/05/collegewomen?currentPage=4…;