Beth Marcello, based in the South Side Slopes, is a writer, consultant and advocate for women.
How Literacy Pittsburgh is Helping to Grow Population and a More Vibrant Economy
This story is part of “The New Americans” series, a project of Pittsburgh Tomorrow. When Mhra Moe arrived in Pittsburgh with her husband and baby daughter as refugees from Myanmar in 2014, she was fluent in Mon and Burmese, but the volunteer teacher knew little English. Despite the trauma of having to flee the only …
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Casa San Jose
Monica Ruiz, a half-Guatemalan American citizen fluent in Spanish, was born and raised in Cleveland. But when Pittsburghers tell her to “go back where you came from” — an insult she hears weekly — they’re not talking about her returning to Cleveland. Ruiz has a theory about why so many Pittsburghers are antagonistic towards her …