Jesse C.

I was born in Mexico and raised in a Spanish-speaking household before moving to the United States at the age of five. Because I learned English at a young age while continuing to speak Spanish at home, I experienced firsthand the challenges and advantages of growing up between two languages. My father later sent me back to Mexico for part of my education, where I studied Spanish grammar, literature, and composition in an academic setting. This gave me a deeper understanding of the language than…