High school students participating in the Leadership, Excellence, Access and Persistence program, known as LEAP(opens in new window), held a public exhibition at the Frame Gallery on Carnegie Mellon University's campus in late May.

An educational partnership between Carnegie Mellon University and City Charter High School, LEAP uses the arts(opens in new window), humanities and social sciences(opens in new window) to empower under-resourced high school students to become agents of social change.

In the year-round program, students learn with and from local artists, activists and CMU faculty who are working to create positive change in the world. They attended an intensive week of workshops on campus in December and had monthly meetings to work on creative projects centered around themes of equity and social justice.