by Andrea Tseng | Sep 6, 2023 | When I Got Here Podcast
Jose Hernandez’s ambition to become a doctor in Cuba was thwarted. Hear how he came to the US and planted seeds that revived his grandfather’s business. Jose has grown it into a firm with international reach. Support the...
by Andrea Tseng | May 30, 2023 | When I Got Here Podcast
Arang Cistulli came to the US from South Korea as a very young child with her family. She grew up in a small Ohio town where her father was a medical doctor. Her story is bookended by prejudice she experienced as a child and by recent hate directed at Asian-Americans....
by Andrea Tseng | Mar 14, 2023 | Immigrant Stories
My name is Awras Haddad. I am Iraqi, and I am an immigrant several times over. I was born in Hungary, schooled in Libya, and educated at a university in Iraq. I prepared to be a dentist in Iraq and the US. I finally settled in Texas. The immigrant I want tell about,...
by Andrea Tseng | Mar 1, 2023 | When I Got Here Podcast
In 1979 Mylinh Luong left communist Vietnam with her father, mother, and four siblings in a crowded fishing boat. She was six years old. She vividly recalls the deprivation, squalor, and brutality of the journey and life in a Malaysian refugee camp. She knows what it...
by Andrea Tseng | Feb 1, 2023 | When I Got Here Podcast
Ana Arellanos was born in Mexico and came to Texas, undocumented, when she was five. She grew up in Gail, a small town in West Texas. Now, at age 34, she is a U.S. citizen and an immigration attorney. She knows the system from both sides. She wishes the whole country...
