Thank you and welcome, everyone!
I want to start with a story that illustrates why we’re here today. It’s the story of a young undocumented student who came from Mexico City to Texas.
At the time, she didn’t speak a word of English. And I think many of us here know how challenging that can be – how demoralized you feel when you just can’t understand what the other students seem to understand right away. That feeling when your knowledge of a language other than English suddenly feels like a deficit instead of the asset it is.
