I’m a female student at Harvard, and I’m conservative. Here’s why.

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The below piece is the winning collegiate essay in the Network of Enlightened Women’s #ShesConservative Essay Contest.

I am conservative. I am a woman. I am an undergraduate student at Harvard. These three parts of my identity are not in conflict with one another, yet their intersection too often is questioned by my peers.

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