Gregory Castro was born in 1988 in the Dominican Republic. In the year 1996, at the age of seven he was brought to the United States by his father in the search for a better future and opportunities for better education than he and his family could get in the Dominican Republic. When he […]
Laurie Lomask
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The person I interviewed is Mercedes Martínez, who is a forty-seven-year-old woman from the Dominican Republic. She was born and raised for most of her life in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic with six siblings. Mercedes recalls her childhood being a very good experience full of love ones and many happy […]
I met her when she came to where I was working, looking for a job. She got it and started working with me and we became more than just coworkers; we became friends. Sharing the same language can make people to get closer to each other and that was what happened […]
Woodarmstrong Pierre who is currently a student at BMCC majoring in science to be a future dentist. He was born in Port au Prince, Haiti on June 24th, 1997. He came to the US when he was 14 years old and has never gone back. He currently lives in Brooklyn. […]
Daniel Campos is an American student born on November 5, 1998, to a Dominican mother, and Puerto Rican father. He was raised in New York City, has visited the Dominican Republic only a few times during his childhood, but did not mention any visits to Puerto Rico. Campos has a […]
