Sentences with phrase «daughter of immigrants»

I am a first - generation Chinese - American daughter of immigrant parents.

Eighteen - year - old Sahmina Rahman, the U.S. - born daughter of immigrants from Bangladesh, is one of a small number of South Asian high school students here who have joined protests against federal proposals to crack down on illegal immigration.

I am a proud daughter of immigrants who came to the United States to work hard for a better quality of life and the American dream.

Kaissa Denis is a proud daughter of immigrants and fierce health advocate, who has spent the last four years fighting for health access in communities of color.

She, Sophia, is a New Jersey daughter of immigrants studying art at the local college in one of the Carolinas while he, Luke, is a good «ole southern boy who spends his days professionally riding bulls.

Daughter of immigrant Indian parents, Rao champions the protection of immigrant families, universal healthcare, affordable housing, and environmental protection, among other issues.

BUT I AM THE DAUGHTER OF IMMIGRANTS SO BYE UBER.

How do I advance the Kingdom of God as a woman of color, a daughter of immigrants, who is seeking to follow Jesus Christ through imitating His ministry to the...

This is for everyone who stayed home from church yesterday — for every mom of a special needs kid, every survivor of sexual assault, every black or brown body in a predominantly white community, every son or daughter of an immigrant, every defender of the marginalized who just couldn't bring yourself to stand and sing «Great Is Thy Faithfulness» alongside the people you feel sold you out this week, the Christians who supported Donald Trump.

And she's a daughter of immigrants?

I've never heard of Italians putting nutmeg in their meatballs, and I think prosciutto would get lost (and that would have been too extravagant for mid-century Italian Americans, most who were immigrants or sons and daughters of immigrants).

«A daughter of immigrants, Grace will be a powerful voice for the close to 3,000 Hotel Trades Council members in her district, many of them New Americans.»

She is the daughter of immigrants from Cuba and Greece, and at age 36 counts as a millennial, winning acclaim in 2013 as one of the American Conservative Union's «Top 10 Under 40.»

Singas as a compelling biography, the daughter of immigrants, a liberal and a representative of the suburbs.

Touting her roots as the daughter of immigrants, she said, if elected, she'd also welcome the opportunity to contribute to the immigration reform debate in Congress.

Virginia Ky of the Chinese American Planning Council compared her experience working in a restaurant to Liu's in the factory, while Brooklyn Democratic District leader Olanike Alabi, who is black, declared, «We know struggle — some as the sons and daughters of immigrants, some as descendents of slaves.»

Kimberly Jean - Pierre, just 30 years old, from Wheatley Heights, is the daughter of immigrants from Haiti.

«I'm the daughter of immigrants also and what's happening in the countries that — we have to be careful because there are many early warning signs of fascism and we as Jews know what happens but everybody knows what happens when fascism comes,» she said.

It worries me as an epidemiologist, it worries me as a daughter of immigrants and it worries me as a Muslim.»

Black, Muslim and daughters of immigrants — we were a minority within a minority.

Whatever the case, Buzzi was the daughter of an immigrant Italian stone sculptor who specialized in cemetery monuments.

Alonzo's debut stand - up special for Netflix, «Lower Classy,» which debuts on Jan. 24, 2017, showcases the comedian's life as the daughter of an immigrant, touching on important issues like social class, breaking the glass ceiling and how she can't get the hang of Zumba.

November 18, 2017 • It took until adulthood for Bonnie Morales, the daughter of immigrant Russian Jews, to appreciate the food of her childhood.

«For the daughter of immigrants from Colombia, it was a whole new world of unexpected opportunities, regardless of the sacrices it took,» she says.

The daughter of immigrants from Japan, Susie Ikeda arrived at HGSE with more than 20 years of experience in information technology management within the biotech and pharmaceutical industry.

As the daughter of immigrant parents, she has witnessed their struggles, which shape her dreams and aspirations to attend college and become a nurse.

As the daughter of immigrant parents, Virginia began school as an English learner.

In an essay for Education Votes, Palacios, the daughter of immigrants, wrote: «When I meet with parents, they recognize I'm one of them and not just because we speak the same language but because I believe in their kids.»

«For me as a Latina, as a daughter of an immigrant, and a teacher, to be associated in that way with Trump and [Education Secretary Betsy] DeVos was very upsetting.»

As the daughter of immigrants and a former undocumented student herself, Hanseul — now state superintendent of schools in the District of Columbia — has walked in the shoes of the nearly 65,000 undocumented students who are on track to graduate from high school next year — and the countless more who will follow in the years to come.

Perfect for fans of Americanah, the much - anticipated debut from Clemmons unfolds through poignant vignettes and centers on the daughter of an immigrant.

Fault me being an ugly American, a daughter of immigrants who grew up in the land of kills.

In Originally, Rutherford's work investigates place and displacement informed by her experience as an immigrant and daughter of an immigrant.

«I am the daughter of immigrants.

He heralds Solis, the daughter of immigrants from Mexico and Nicaragua, as «brown and green,» saying that President - elect Obama «got it right» with this pick, which «makes clear his commitment to creating green jobs to lift the nation out of its current economic crisis.»

This includes 18 million children and youth who are sons and daughters of immigrants or are immigrants themselves» — The Annie E. Casey Foundation

I am a daughter of immigrant parents from Poland.