Got a Girl Crush On: 17-year-old Rochelle Ballantyne of Brooklyn taking the chess world by storm.

…raised by a single mom from Trinidad and soared on the I.S. 318 chess team. Rochelle, now 17 and aiming to become the first African-American woman to become a chess master, has won a full scholarship to Stanford University. She’s planning to attend even though she has never visited the campus.

“We were meant to break stereotypes,” Rochelle told me. “Chess isn’t something people are good at because of the color of their skin. We just really work very hard at it.” 

(ny times)

(via thingsivemade, Clutch Magazine, Jezebel)