The Immigrant's Chronicles - Richardson, Arame

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Résumé :
The Immigrant's Chronicles is a story about one immigrant's everyday life, her challenges, and triumphs, as she struggles to make the transition between cultures. When we leave our homes, we carry with us our hopes and our innocence. We believe that life overseas is going to be easy. The truth is we have no idea what we are going to encounter. But, in our journey, we are fortunate to meet people who help us along the way. We no longer question why and how. We just know that they are there by providence or by circumstance. We survive day by day. We move from one episode of life to another, knowing that for every door that closes a new one opens. Despite stomach-wrenching fear and uncertainty, we manage to survive. At times, we cannot see how we are going to make it. As a writer, I hope that the people who read this book can relate to the stories and be inspired by my attempts to adopt and adapt to my new homeland and to find compassion for the newbies and immigrants among us. All people are connected by dots; not by color, race or religion. (Arame)

Biographie:

Since 2009, Ms. Arame Richardson has served as an educator in the Baltimore City Public School System as well as a foreign language teacher at Harford County School.

Ms. Richardson has proven to be a dedicated, compassionate, and inspiring teacher and leader and she is committed to assisting her students with acquiring relevant knowledge from a real-world perspective. She is also very dedicated to performing her other responsibilities-including counselling and assisting students with assessing their academic performance and personal development; preparing lesson plans and special assignments; engaging parents in their student's academic and extra-curricular activities; and planning and organizing special educational events and activities outside of the classroom environment.

When she is not in the classroom, Ms. Richardson also provides private lessons and tutoring in French and Spanish for students from the elementary school to adults students travelling overseas. Originally from Senegal, she is the founder of an NGO that spearhead programs to promote international cultural understanding and initiatives for youth in underserved local communities in the US with an interest in Africa. She is on the advisory board of a primary school in Senegal that she co-founded with her mother.

Ms. Richardson is an alumnus of the University of Maryland, where she studied Africana Studies with a minor in Education/Intercultural Communication.