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Lornaida Avilés de León is a Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Department of Romance Studies, a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Faculty Fellow, and a Study Abroad Faculty Leader. Lornaida was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and migrated to the US when she was 12. During this…

This interview was conducted in Spanish by Johana Bautista-Ayala with her mother, Elsi Bautista. Throughout the interview, Elsi tells us her family’s perspective and history on their migration experience from Honduras to the United States due to environmental factors, primarily the disaster caused by Hurricane Mitch. Elsi recounts much of this…