Kate Stence is the Senior Editor of Her Blueprint as well as a Contributing Columnist on human rights and public health. A writer, editor, and an avid ultramarathoner, she has studied 18th Century Literature at the University of California Berkeley at doctoral level, feminist theory at Mills College, the French language at the Sorbonne, creative writing at New York University and the University of Iowa, as well as poetry at the Barnard Center for Research on Women. In 2010, she completed the 85th Comrades Marathon, a 56 mile endurance race in South Africa, for Girls on the Run International and SoleMates. In 2011, she returned to run Comrades for Women for Women International.
This week, millions of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a war-ravaged African country, voted in their second ever presidential and parliamentary election. As Congolese (and Egyptians) cast votes, they speak out for all rights.
