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Brendan Parker from the Luke Adams Foundation said the idea of the nine-day trip was to show Lisa-Marie the wider world in the hope she will gain inspiration and come back and share that experience with local girls. And with Lisa-Marie to also do a photo shoot in New York for the SKYE and Staghorn brands before coming back and participating in the Perth Fashion Festival, so much the better if the trip helped launch her career. From our point of view it is about providing opportunities to young people like her, and if she can grab that and run with it that is brilliant, Brendan said. There is nothing wrong with these girls going away to chase their dreams as long as they retain that connection to their local community and come back and share what they have learned and inspire other kids. Lisa-Marie will walk the runways in New York on September 7 and in Perth on September 14. She will also return to the Pilbara with designer Ruth Tarvydas and leading Indigenous model Samantha Harris on September 16-17.

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By Ben Leahy
It might be one small step on a catwalk, but for Karratha student and aspiring model Lisa-Marie Rodd it will be a giant leap. The Karratha High School student next month flies to the US to walk the runway for prominent Australian designer Ruth Tarvydas at New York Fashion Week. New to modelling, Lisa-Marie won last years amateur Pilbara Girl beauty pageant in which local girls participate in confidence boosting public speaking and modelling programs and has only taken the occasional fashion job since. So the transition from the Pilbaras red dirt runways to modelling in front of more than 400 celebrities at the Altman Building in one of the worlds most important fashion shows is likely to be an exciting and daunting challenge. But she said the trip organised by community groups Roebourne Girls FX Academy and the Luke Adams Foundation was deliberately designed to broaden her horizons. This is the first time I have travelled overseas and I am excited to be going to New York and participating in Fashion Week, Lisa-Marie said. [But] I am also hoping to develop my leadership skills further so that I can be a role model for other girls in the community when I come home. Lisa-Maries New York trip will be the second time girls from the Roebourne FX Academy have visited the Big Apple. The academy uses fun artistic pursuits, such as song, dance, drama and modelling, as a way to address issues within the local community such as self-esteem, sexual and womens health, drug and alcohol abuse, healthy lifestyles and future direction. That means Lisa-Marie will also meet with school students in Brooklyn and the Bronx as part of a cultural exchange. I am looking forward to meeting other students my own age and seeing how different their lives are to mine in the Pilbara, she said.

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