— Helen Obando, 18 and soon to be a high school senior, nibbled French fries at a cafe and chatted about her future.... Dressed in a halter top and shorts, her toenails painted turquoise, she described her plans to enroll at a community college, teach hip-hop dance and become a trauma nurse someday. For most of her life, such modest dreams would have been unattainable.... Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, only in May; and the overwhelming focus on the pandemic....