Brooke Ivy

student at West Ranch High in Santa Clarita

Brooke Ivy on KCRW

KCRW talks with Sydney Perry, who will soon start her junior year at Los Alamitos High, plus Brooke Ivy, a senior who already started classes at West Ranch High.

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