Chrishaunda Lee Perez Chrishaunda Lee Perez is a seasoned, multi-hyphenate storyteller and creative entrepreneur. She uses novels, memoirs, essays, articles, screenwork, and oration to express in-depth narratives often focusing on women, empathy, and social class. “We Come as Girls, We Leave as Women”, about a diverse set of high school senior-aged girls who attend a world-famous boarding school in New England, is a story of fiction, yet serves as a reflection of various themes and cultures with which Ms. Perez is very familiar, having graduated from the prestigious Miss Porter’s School in Farmington, CT.