Asheville High grad Jamie Corliss leaves this month for Ghana to work on human rights and health care projects as part of Projects Abroad. An active member of Asheville High’s Amnesty International chapter, she’s traveled with her church youth group to do service work in La Blanca, Guatemala, Kentucky, New Orleans, and with the Urban Poverty Friendship Center in Atlanta. Her passion for social justice is matched only by her commitment to dance. She started at the Asheville Contemporary Dance theater when she was just 4, balancing her schoolwork and activism with at least six hours of dance classes a week. She’s taken two dance exchange trips to Merida, in Mexico’s Yucatan, spending six weeks there in fall 2009. She plans to start classes at Columbia College in Chicago in fall 2011.