We had agreed to meet at 7:00 a.m. because it was the only hour all three of us could make the interview work. I arrived a few minutes early, but Mae Dapkus and Olivia Self were already in the parking lot, already catching up with familiar faces, already making use of a morning most people would have spent half asleep. Between AP classes, ACTs, varsity sports, volunteer work, and the fact that teenagers do need sleep, finding an hour to sit down and talk felt like a small mir