Our Lady of Mercy High School, Fayetteville, alumna Simone Cowan, fourth from left, class of 2015, spent International Women’s Day with First Lady Michelle Obama, while celebrating the one-year anniversary of “Let Girls Learn.” The day was observed on Tuesday, March 8.

WASHINGTON—Our Lady of Mercy High School, Fayetteville, alumna Simone Cowan, class of 2015, spent March 8, International Women’s Day, at the White House with First Lady Michelle Obama, while celebrating the one-year anniversary of “Let Girls Learn.”

In a Facebook post, Cowan reported traveling to the White House and receiving celebrity treatment. Afterward, there was a photo shoot with Mrs. Obama.

“Being a part of the First Lady’s motorcade, while on top of a double-decker bus, was truly an experience that I will never forget,” she wrote.

During her time at Our Lady of Mercy High School, Cowan was a member of the “Girls Up” campaign, an initiative of the United Nations Foundation.