Glamour magazine announced on Thursday, April 6, that Newtown native Sarah Clements is among its College Women of the Year honorees.

For six decades, according to

Glamour, it has honored trailblazing women who have pushed culture forward. This year's winners include a transgender rights activist, an environmentalist, and a two-time NCAA Division I women's basketball champion. All ten honorees will be featured in Glamour's May issue, which will be on national newsstands April 11. They will also be honored at an awards ceremony luncheon presented by L'Oréal Paris on April 25 in New York City.

Sarah graduated from Newtown High School in 2014. She now attends Georgetown University in Washington D.C.

Glamour's College Women of the Year competition recognizes students from across the country for campus leadership, scholastic achievement, community involvement, and unique, inspiring goals. All winners will receive a cash prize, a trip to New York City, introductions to top professionals in a variety of fields, national recognition in the magazine, and hair styling and makeup for the awards-ceremony luncheon complements of L'Oréal Paris.

This 60th anniversary year,

Glamour selected Mount Holyoke College senior Ellen Chilemba as the $20,000 grand prize winner for her work helping Malawian women get the tools and training they need to become entrepreneurs through her organization Tiwale. Additionally, L'Oréal Paris will present a College Woman of Worth award and cash prize at the event on April 25 to the woman who exemplifies the strongest charitable spirit.

Each honoree is highlighted on

Glamour's website. Sarah's highlight reads: "On December 14, 2012, my mom was at Sandy Hook Elementary School - hiding with her students while a shooter killed 26 children and educators. She and her class, thankfully, survived. A month later I met families at a march in Washington, D.C., who'd lost loved ones at other shootings, and I realized: This is bigger than Newtown. I had to do something. With classmates I started the Jr Newtown Action Alliance to work on gun reform. We wrote letters, called officials, and lobbied congress for background checks. I connected with Ronnie Mosley, a young man from Chicago who lost a friend to gun violence, and with Generation Progress, we started #Fight4AFuture Network, an activist group that now has more than 3,000 advocates, including some from my new organization, Georgetown Against Gun Violence."