Empowering woman: Castle Rock native founds nonprofit to address period poverty on Indian reservation
“At the youth summit, she’d heard that a lot of young women on the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwest South Dakota didn’t have access to menstrual products and, ‘it was a wake up moment,’ said Boyd who is currently in her sophomore year at Colorado College. Her desire to help grew after that and during years of volunteering on the reservation, where 97% of the population lives below the federal poverty line, according to Friends of Pine Ridge Reservation.”