Ponny White is a Political Science senior double majoring in Multimedia Journalism with an emphasis in Women’s and Gender Studies at Minnesota State University Moorhead (MSUM). As the president of the MSUM Black Student Union, she organized the first inclusive-comprehensive sex-education curriculum. Ponny is also a reproductive health policy advocate with Advocates for Youth and Planned Parenthood. She launched an emergency contraception campaign, which allocated free Plan B pills for students and community members, for which she earned Planned Parenthood’s Advocate on the Move award. She currently sits on a governor-appointed cabinet dedicated to proposing and implementing policies that aid women and girls throughout the state of Minnesota. When she isn’t working, she enjoys writing poetry and getting lost in her favorite neo-soul playlist. At TCF, Ponny will be working as a women’s economic justice Summer Scholar.
