As a Roman Catholic, I am proud to share my religious and cultural heritage that informs my work as an ESL/Citizenship teacher. I also want to honor my Catholic brothers and sisters working tirelessly for justice on behalf on the immigrant community.

#catholic #AllAreWelcome #religiousfreedom

I encourage educators to develop resources that extends welcome to targeted communities. They will be here long after these policies fade away.

During the first Muslim Ban, I wrote a series of practice interviews for our students to continue their naturalization process.

Citizenship Interview Quiz for Nimco Ahmed pdf
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“I’m a U.S. citizen,” Ms. Hestmark said. “Tom is the love of my life, who happens to be born in Germany. We feel like we were tricked.”

“We followed everything we were supposed to do,” she added. “And now Tom is suffering. We are all suffering."