Interview, Diana Casais Almanza

Diana Casais Almanza was born in 1969 and raised in Mexico City, Mexico, as the youngest of seven children. She moved to the United States in the year 2000 because her husband got an engineering job in Rochester, NY. She began taking English classes when she arrived here and currently works as an interpreter at Strong Memorial Hospital.

In this interview, Diana Casais Almanza discusses her family and upbringing in Mexico City, the difficulties she faced when she first moved to the United States, and the long process of getting American citizenship. She explains how she identifies with the idea of being Mexican, Hispanic, and Latina as well as how her children identify with these labels. She also discusses her involvement in the Rochester Latino community and her perspective on the current situation of Latinos in the United States.