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Shayna Morales Soto

Shayna Morales Soto is a high school senior at John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics and Science in Boston.

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Dorchester, Mass. teen Shayna Morales Soto works with local children in Yalcobá, a Mayan village in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.
Posted inElementary to High School

STUDENT VOICE: A Mayan village helps prepare an urban teen for college

Avatar photo by Shayna Morales Soto January 8, 2018April 8, 2021

Here are two things I believe: Life begins at the end of your comfort zone; and there is no such thing as “normal.” These ideas probably lurked within me for years as I grew up in the Dorchester section of Boston. Then, they came blasting to life on a journey with Summer Search Boston. When […]

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