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Ann Bancroft with a penguin in Antartica
Ann Bancroft, one of the world’s preeminent
polar explorers, was once 
a schoolteacher—and
before that, a 
girl with a learning disability
and an 
audacious dream of traversing Antarctica.

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The world urgently needs the leadership of women and the full engagement of girls. The Ann Bancroft Foundation is making that happen–one girl at a time.