“We can do it”: New Directions Case Manager Jessica Mitchell stands before a poster of Rosie the Riveter, an image from World War II reborn as an iconic symbol of equal rights. Mitchell would work with 16-year-olds placed in the New Directions program, run by Northern Rivers, in Schenectady; the program has been ready for months, but no girls have yet been placed in it.
Credit: Elizabeth Floyd Mair