#Katrina10: Interpreter and Language Access
I happened to visit New Orleans in early August for an Interpreting conference. In fact, I was in New Orleans on the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and was… Continue reading
Monthly Archive: August, 2015
Parnaz Foroutan: The Girl From the Garden
Parnaz Foroutan is a writer based out of Los Angeles. Her family fled Iran during the Iran-Iraq War and eventually found themselves in Los Angeles. She grew up listening to stories from her… Continue reading
Cristina Henríquez: Unknown Americans
Cristina Henríquez is a novelist based out of Chicago, originally from Delaware. Her latest novel is The Book of Unknown Americans, which follows the lives of different Latino immigrants residing in the same… Continue reading
Chaumtoli Huq: Racial Profiling and Police Abuse in NYC
Chaumtoli Huq is a human rights lawyer from New York City and editor of Law at the Margins. Only July 19 of last year, during the month of Ramadan, she and her family… Continue reading
Chitra Viraraghavan: The Americans
Chitra Viraraghavan is the author of her debut novel, The Americans. This is the story of Tara, a single Indian woman in her mid-30s who travels to America to look after her teenage niece… Continue reading
Haben Girma: #ADA25 and Advancing Technology
Haben Girma serves as a Skadden Fellowship Attorney at Disability Rights Advocates in Berkeley, California. Honored as a White House Champion of Change, and the first Deaf blind graduate of Harvard Law School, Haben… Continue reading
Lennard Davis: Enabling Acts and Hidden Tales
Lennard J. Davis is a Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences and teaches in the English Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he had also served as the department’s… Continue reading