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when dominicans emigrate to the united states, we give away all our clothes and our belongings. we say, "why bringing stuff to a country where we're going to find everything we need?" and plus, bikinis have no place in the middle of the winter. i come here to boston, i had just got married and come here to start myew family. my husband had immigrated here a yearefore with his family and was working as kitchen aide at a local nursing home. hifamily, nobody spoke english nor had a professional job. i had learned english in high school, and i had just graduated from a bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering. so i'm thinking, "i'm going to boston, i'm going to find a job as soon as possible." i start sending my résumé everywhere, but i don't hear from anybody. nobody's calling me foany interview, and i'm wondering what is going on. i cannot understand what is going on. but i also didn't have anybody to ask

so the only person i knew had a professional job was my cousin, angela, who was working as an administrative assistant at a local day care center. and she said, "of course, "i can refer you to my former boss. she's looking for a part-time bilingual receptionist." and i said, "of course i can do that." days were going by, i was getting desperate. we were living in a two-bedroom apartment with his family, and before the landlord kick us out, we needed to move out, so i head to that interview. when i get to the interview, i meet cathy, the manager. she was a long-hair, hippie style... ...married to an african american guy, cambridge resident, so she just loved me. she, she just wanted to offer me the job right away. and then she says, "but you still have to interview with my executive director. "she's a little bit intimidating, "but don't worry, you'll be just fine.

"i know you'll be okay. just get youelf ready and go to the interview." so i get very excited. i get a nice, professional suit, and i head to the second interview with executive director. i get to meet the executive director, a very tall woman, big personality, middle-age, expressionless white woman. (laughter) she asked me all sorts of questions, and i'm answering-- very nervous-- i answered them all, i went home, and i just prayed i get that job. a few days go by, and cathy calls me and says, "claritza, you got the job," and i'm like, "yes." "so, but you have to start right away." and i said, "of course, i'll start on monday." so i start my job, and two weeks go by, and the executive director comes back from vacation. she walks in through the front door with her big bags, her big personality,

and she looks surprised and a little bit upset. she stares at me for a few minutes, and she goes upstairs. needless to say that i'm nervous. soon enough, i find out that she had told cathy not to hire me because i didn't speak good english. so at this point, cathy thought that, because of my education and my energy, i was going to be able to do this job and of course gain the confidence of the executive director. and i have to confess that i also thought i could do the job. soon enough, i realized i couldn't do that job. some of you may not know that in spanish, words are spelled the same way as they sound. we don't have to deal with those damn silent vowels that you have in english. (laughter) and, plus, when you're learning a new language, the processing time in your brain,

it's much slower. so i was struggling. i was disappointed with my own performance, because i couldn't pick up messages and the spell of the names of the callers soon enough before they would hang up on me or get upset because i had to ask them over and over again. so i knew i was in trouble. by then we have move out and get a rent-controlled apartment in cambridge. so i'm concerned i'm going to lose my job, and i needed to do something. so i said, "claritza, you got to do something." it occurred to me to grab the white pages. do you remember those? (laughter) i grabbed that book and walked down the street to the only person who spoke english in the family, my 12-years-old niece, melissa. and i said, "mellie, "can you please dictate names and number of the book, so i can learn how to pick up messages?" and she's, like, "of course, tía."

so for two or three weeks, we sat down every night for her to dictate names and numbers, and i became a master speller. i was so proud of myself, i thought had secured my job. so i come happy to my job every day, but one day, that proved that that was not enough. cathy comes down the stairs with tears in her eyes, and she said "claritza, the executive director have eliminated your position." i still can feel the sadness and despair of that moment. by the i was four months pregnant with my first so and just the thought that i uldn't provide fory son anbeing able to pay rent that, as it is, a part-time, ten-dollaran-hour job, was making more money than my husband with a minimum-wage kitcheaide job. i picked up my stuff, i went home, and cried.

i cried and cried and cried. i just couldn't believe it. and i picked up myself a couple of days later, and i said, "you know what, i'm applying for new jobs." a women's organization, out of alllaces, called me up for an interview. and i went to the interview, and when they saw me pregnant, they look at me like i had three heads, and i never heard from them. days went by, weeks went by, and i still cannot believe, up to this moment, the executive director herself called me back. and she asked me to come back. and this time, she offered me a full-time job. (applause) i heard there was a lot of chaos in the front office. and people were just asking, "where is claritza, where is claritza?" i worked there one more year,

and as you remember, i was a computer engineer. so i developed a software for them, and i used that experience as a reference to get my first software developer job. fast forward many years later, i am an executive, at technology companies, and i have my own company. so my story... reminds me that we always have to be understanding and tolerant of others, because we really don't know the trials and challenges that they're going through. (applause)

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