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Sandro Pinheiro was born in Fortaleza, Brazil and moved to the United States when he was twenty-one to attend graduate school in Michigan. He received his PhD in Adult and Continuing Education and has worked for Compassion International, Michigan State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, where he still…

Ana Laura Medrano was born in Chihuahua, Mexico and moved to Washington, North Carolina when she was eleven years old. Her father was a U.S. resident and traveled frequently between Texas and Mexico. Medrano and her mother received travel visas through her father's company. Medrano attended high school in the U.S. and enrolled at Beaufort Community…

Sara Gonzalez is a PhD candidate in the Political Science Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is an Argentinean native who migrated to the United States in 2008 to pursue her degree in academia. Growing up in middle class Buenos Aires, Gonzalez is first in her family to complete her college degree and obtain a…

Miguel Celeste is a recent graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He and his family immigrated from Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico in 1998, when Celeste was ten, and moved to Siler City, North Carolina. Celeste graduated high school in Siler City and moved to Chapel Hill to pursue a degree in English. In this interview Celeste talks…

Maria Figueroa is an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, majoring in economics and mathematics. Her family moved from Cuernavaca, Mexico to Hendersonville, North Carolina when she was ten years old because her parents were in search of better paying jobs. Both of Figueroa's parents have bachelor's degrees from Mexican…

Anabel Hernandez Cortes is a coordinator in Enlaces with the Durham Region Affairs Office and Duke University. She has been widely involved in her community, and now provides educational resources for her community in Durham, N.C. She is originally from a town near the city of Irapuato, in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. Cortes explains her…

Vianey Lemus Martinez is a first generation college student and a first year at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). She came to UNC thinking that her major would be business but discovered that she might change her major to Spanish. Because Martinez is a first year student, she constantly compares and contrasts high school and…

Natalie Borrego was born and raised in Miami, Fla. where a prominent Cuban immigrant community is well established as part of a larger Latin American community there. Borrego was raised identifying as Cuban-American and/or Hispanic. She explains the usage of the term Hispanic, which is commonly used by fellow Cubans in her hometown. The terms…