On Tuesday, January 29, 2019, I visited Melrose High for a girls’ empowerment luncheon for students in the Do The Right Thing Club organized by Social Studies teacher Hannah Edsall and outgoing METCO Director Doreen Ward. The students prepared questions for our panel of four women from different fields, and then we all had lunch together. This group of young women is definitely going places, and I loved the conversations I had with many of them. We shared our hopes, fears, anxieties, and inspirations with each other and I hope I get to see them all again soon. The other panelists were Tanisha Sullivan, Esq., the President of Boston NAACP and a biotech lawyer, Summer Williams, the Co-Founder and Associate Artistic Director at Company One Theatre in Boston, and Kathryn Denman, a Senior Project Manager for the Starbucks Achievement Plan. I still keep in touch with some of the students, who have since graduated from high school.
Panelist at Melrose High School Girls’ Empowerment Luncheon, January 29, 2019
