Emma Oosterhous, a University of Colorado Boulder grad, tells stories in her webcomic Alphabet Soup about LGBTQ youth and how they mustered up the courage to come out. She was recently awarded a prestigious Marshall scholarship. She tells Colorado Matters she plans to use the support to get her master's degree in comics and graphic novels at the University of Dundee in Scotland.
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