Local student chosen for national leadership program

Yuri-Grace Ohashi, a student at Starr’s Mill High School in 2015-2016, was selected to participate in the Economics for Leaders program this month at Yale University in New Haven, Ct.

Ohashi was one of 40 students from across the country honored by being accepted into the Foundation for Teaching Economics’ New Haven Economics for Leaders program. All of the students were selected because they have demonstrated excellent leadership potential.

During the week-long Economics for Leaders program, students attain an understanding of economic reasoning principles and how to employ these concepts for successful and effective leadership. Additionally, participants achieve a heightened awareness of the impact their decisions have on others and the responsibility that awareness imposes. Economics for Leaders is an unparalleled learning and growing opportunity. Students who have attended Economics for Leaders programs in prior years have called it “the experience of a lifetime.”