The male-dominated “atmosphere of competitions just makes girls not want to play,” Ashley Lynn Priore, 20, told Ms.
But Priore is making a difference. To date, her program, Queen’s Gambit, has reached over 500 girls in the Pittsburgh area.
Author: Lauren Nehorai
Lauren Nehorai is an international award-winning student journalist from Los Angeles, California. Journalism is her biggest passion and she serves as both the editor-in-chief of her high school's magazine, the Panorama, and the features editor of the newspaper, the Chronicle.