The Journey of a New Yorker

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As a child in New York, you couldn't speak English. What was the next steps for you? What did you do then? How did your journey unfold and where did you stop? Those were pretty rough years coming in. We had come to the stage with my older brother to join our mother who had emigrated a few years earlier.

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Roosevelt Montás. A Senior Lecturer at Columbia University. He holds a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. He was Director of the Center for the Core Curriculum at Columbia College from 2008 to 2018. . a renaissance man who loves literature and writing, as well as being the director of Columbia University's Freedom and Citizenship Program.He speaks and writes on the history, meaning, and future of liberal education and is author of Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation