Leaving Girls Behind

  Siena Lesher remembers walking into her Introduction to Engineering class on the second day of school and not feeling right. As she surveyed the class, she noticed right away that, of around 25 students, there were only three girls. “When you walk into a room and you see that no one in there is like you, it really feels like you don’t belong there,” she says. When it came time for students…

Welcome to the Neighborhood

[powr-map label=”Enter a Label”]   Each morning, students file inside the doors of Grant High School and catch their last moments of peace before starting the school day. The bell ushers everyone to their classrooms and the halls fall silent as students  begin their work.  Just across the street, the houses that surround the school also bustle with life, as the neighbors who coexist with one of Portland’s largest high schools start their…