Article: Girls discover, share their leadership skills and get sage advice; Workshop is first in series by League of Women Voters.(NEWS)

Huddling in small groups, they came up with lists of shared traits, including a love of pizza, cats and camping, an inability to

roller-blade and a desire to make the world a better place.

That ice-breaking exercise led 27 Minneapolis girls from ninth to 12th grades more comfortably into deeper issues of styles of power and leadership.

"Just because a person looks different outside, if you can sit down with them, you can find things you agree on," said Latarshia Lewis, of north Minneapolis, a ninth-grader at Patrick Henry High School.

The gathering was the first for the Young Women's Community Leadership Project, a venture of the ...

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