Madelyn Estrada is 27 years old and came to the United States as a Guatemalan immigrant at the age of 7. Her mother worked in an upscale neighborhood as a nanny and her father was a day laborer awaiting work each day at a 7 Eleven store in Maryland.
Today, Estrada is a full-time graduate student in Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University.
She credits her parents and other important people who came into her life for inspiring her to make the right kind of choices that have landed her at this prestigious university.
Estrada remembers the time when her family became U.S. citiziens, She says it had been "a big deal" because she, her two sisters, and her parents had become "official" members of the special club in the United States. "This country has an all-start team and our citizenship has helped us blend in and we earned to right to be called Americans just like everyone else," she tells me.
It hasn't been an easy road to travel for Estrada and her family, but one well worth following, as her story displays.
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