Dreams and Shadows

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Emma Violand-Sánchez knew little English when she arrived in Virginia from Bolivia in the summer of 1961 as a high school senior. In the decades that followed she would lose a husband in Vietnam raise two children as a single mother and become a transformative figure in American public education and in service to immigrants and refugees advocating for bilingual education and expanding opportunities for immigrant students and their families.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Part testament to the power of suffering and faith and to the challenges women face across the world </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Dreams and Shadows</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> is also a meditation on politics class the immigrant experience acculturation as a lifelong process and the importance of maintaining bicultural identity against the myth of the American melting pot. On a deeper level it is also the story of a life lived in service-and about the ways that suffering and joy are contained each within the other binding us all together across cultures and boundaries.</span></p>