#AUB student Rita-Maria Ibrahim at Founders Day ceremony: "The first thing I ever learned about women is that they have always been a minority. They were denied the right to an education, lest they learn to think for themselves."
#AUB student Rita-Maria Ibrahim at Founders Day ceremony: "the gender pay gap is astoundingly persistent, and women are severely underrepresented in governmental, medical, entrepreneurial and technological industries."
#AUB student Rita-Maria Ibrahim at Founders Day ceremony: "I make it my life’s purpose to speak out, to learn and to educate myself and others, to have opinions, to express my liberty to agree and disagree, and to take up as much space as I possibly can."
#AUB student Rita-Maria Ibrahim at Founders Day ceremony: "AUB must aim to instill in its students a deep-rooted respect for women, by introducing them to the revolutionary women who have changed the course of history."
#AUB student Rita-Maria Ibrahim at Founders Day ceremony: "The acknowledgement of women in history and women today ensures that they are treated better going forward, that they are appreciated and respected, and that they may have life, and have it more abundantly."
Rita-Maria Ibrahim receives 1st prize for #AUB Founders Day student essay contest. She took initiative in further enriching AUB’s student cultural organizations and became president and founder of AUB's Dead Poets Society student club.