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Maryam Shehata, a third-year gender studies student, started Snack N’ Give Back, a foundation that sells snacks and donates its profit to countries like Syria, India, and Pakistan. (Chengcheng Zhang/Daily Bruin)

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Maryam Shehata saw factory employees crowded into poorly lit rooms, working even through their breaks, when she walked through a manufacturing company in Hong Kong. “In general, there was an atmosphere of disconnect,” said Shehata, a third-year gender studies student.

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Student pushes for better careers, labor practices in apparel industry

By Erica Drake

Nov. 22, 2016 9:56 p.m.