Spring 2009
Orubba Almansouri, who emigrated to the U.S. from Yemen only two years ago, preparing a sample of her own mitochondrial DNA at the new Harlem DNA Lab. She is the student body president at Brooklyn International H.S. “In my country,” she says, “the public schools were always very crowded, maybe 80 students per class. The girls were separate from the boys. We didn’t do labs.”