Dreams and Shadows: An Immigrant's Journey

This channel features Emma Violand Sanchez and her memoir Dreams and Shadows: An Immigrant’s Journey. Emma Violand-Sánchez is an immigrant from Bolivia who arrived without her parents in 1961 as a senior in high school, knowing little English.  During a long and often difficult personal journey, she became a transformative figure in American public education and in service to immigrants and refugees.

Emma's personal story unfolds against the backdrops of the Vietnam era, segregation and desegregation, the beginnings of a tidal wave of immigration, convulsive shifts in federal and state education policy, and the emergence of public education as a battleground in America’s culture wars. 
Learn more about Emma and her journey at emmaviolandsanchez.com