Naperville’s Lucy Westlake has had quite the year. Westlake, who in May became the youngest American woman to summit Mount Everest, recently received the 2022 Barron Prize for Young Heroes for her ongoing work to curb the global water crisis.
On its website, Barron Prize officials praised the more than $30,000 Westlake has raised to help provide access to clean drinking water for residents in Uganda and other parts of the world.
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