Across Women's Lives

It can be hard to find a truly quiet place in the Lake Worth, Florida-based Guatemalan-Maya Center. Just inside one door, case workers and other staff answer phones and talk clients through paperwork, immigration processes and other services. A long, narrow room on the ground floor has chairs along one wall that are often filled with people waiting for help.Other activities, like planning for cultural events and staging for projects and donations, spill over to the spaces in between.Related: In this California classroom, students teach each other their home languages — and learn acceptanceBut at least one afternoon a week, a group of high school girls carve out some space in the quietest area they can find to huddle around a laptop.They call themselves the Mayan Girls. The Mayan Girls, dressed in the traditional outfits they wore to pitch to Philanthropy Tank, stand with their adviser, social worker Daniel Morgan. Credit: Courtesy of the Mayan Girls  Listen t