Hayle Perez is a rising senior at Alliance Collins Family College Ready High School. She is the president and founder of the journalism club, which oversees her school’s newspaper. Perez loves writing and photography; photography, she believes, captures the true essence of a moment. Apart from journalism, she comes from a family of five with a Guatemalan and Salvadoran background. She loves reading and visiting different bookstores, along with collecting trinkets and Legos.