Top 10 College Women 2014: Ishani Premaratne

antastic, funny, fearless, hardworking, heartwarming, kick-ass, incredible-- there are not enough adjectives in the English language to describe the winners of our 57th annual college-achievement competition.

This premed standout and her twin, Inesha, (yes, they're both winners), spent their summers visiting their grandparents' native Sri Lanka. When they discovered that many of the 90,000 women widowed in the country's civil war were out of work, they founded GrowLanka, a mobile alert system that helps people jobhunt via text message. They partnered with the country's largest employer and, in less than a year, helped connect 500 women in some of Sri Lanka's most remote regions with job opportunities. "Now they can support their families, even after decades of war and being told they couldn't," says Ishani, who eventually hopes to work for Doctors Without Borders and host public health segments on TV.