has been removed from his position, according to a statementissued Many of the students she meets, she says, have never heard ofMendez v. Westminster “I was seeing this beautiful [white] school, large concrete courtyard, a beautiful playground,” she says. “I thought, ‘I know what they’re fighting for. They’re fighting so I can go to that beautiful school and have a playground.’” As a 9-year-old at the time of the trial, however, Mendez tellsTeen Vogue