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In mid-2021, as the COVID pandemic raged, high school student Lily Messing noticed that the social ills plaguing her native Tucson, Arizona -
Determined to do something to help, the two Jewish teens put their respective skills to use: Lily as a grassroots organizer, Jake as a tennis instructor.
The local teens are among 15 recipients of the Diller Teen Tikkun Olam awards, which is given annually by the San Francisco-based Helen Diller Family Foundation.