Our 4 Inspiring Young Latinas of the Month!

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Last year, the then 17-year-old senior at Toppenish High School in Toppenish, Washington, pretended to be pregnant for six months for her Senior Project, a requirement for graduation. Gaby Rodriguez told only a handful of people about the experiment, which was aimed to bring awareness to stereotypes often pegged to Latina youth. Among those in on the months-long secret were the teenager’s mother, boyfriend, and school principal, Trevor Greene. Greene said he admired Rodriguez’s courage in an interview with the Yakima-Herald newspaper. “In essence, she gave up her senior year,” he said. “She sacrificed her senior year to find out what it would be like to be a potential teen mom.” Read more here!