Interview, Rodis Quezada

Rodis Quezada was born and raised in the Dominican Republic. She completed a medical degree and worked as a doctor there until she moved to the United States to be with her husband, whom she met while he was there for his college education. She now works as a teacher in the Rochester City School District and in hospice care, while regularly traveling to the Dominican Republic in order to maintain her medical license there.

In this interview, Quezada discusses what it was like moving to the United States, the ways in which she raised her children with Dominican cultural traditions, and her work in medicine. She talks about how she struggled with English when she first arrived in the United States, her time in college, and how she views herself as a Dominican living in the United States. She also discusses her trips to the Dominican Republic and her reasons for moving to the United States.