Teresa Reyes - a podcast by John Noltner

Teresa Reyes was born in El Salvador and came to the United States in 1999 when she was 17 years old, nine months pregnant and spoke only Spanish. As she established herself in her new home, she packed lettuce in farm fields, worked in slaughterhouses and taught herself English. She eventually put herself through college and now works as an environmental scientist.

 We talked about the search for her mother, who had fled the country’s civil war before Teresa’s first birthday, the challenges of being raised by her grandparents, the lack of opportunities she saw for herself in her home country as a pregnant teenager, and her determination to find a different path for herself.

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