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Audrey Eu

Agnes Chow, 17, started going to protests in high school. She's been a fixture at Hong Kong demonstrations over nearly two weeks of pro-democracy protests.

Loved or loathed, Hong Kong’s new generation of student protest leaders pushes for change

Global Politics

She isn’t old enough to get a driver’s license or vote. But at 17, Agnes Chow is already a political player in Hong Kong. As one of the leaders of an influential student activist group called Scholarism, Chow is part of a new political generation making its mark in the Chinese territory.