The Philadelphia Citizen Reports on An Immigrant Alphabet
September 16, 2019 | Katherine Rapin
I IS FOR IMMIGRANT
And in the three years since they began the project, many of the students have become spokespeople for immigration issues. Suellen, a student from Brazil, had the opportunity to speak directly to Mayor Kenney, to share her story and show her appreciation for his commitment to being a welcoming city for immigrants. Now she has high hopes for the next life of An Immigrant Alphabet.“I just hope that people that have been kind of ignorant or never stopped to think about the subject and how important it is, I hope that this project gets to them,” she says. She hopes it inspires empathy for immigrants’ experiences and causes them to think about their own background. “Unless you’re Native American, your family came from somewhere else,” she says. “It’s important for people here to be accepting of people to come and have the same privileges that they have and maybe take for granted.”