Interview, Edy Torbio Rosenfield

Edy Toribio Rosenfield was born in 1966 and raised in Panama, where she completed her elementary and high school education. She moved to Alexandria, Virginia, when she was 22 years old and became a registered nurse. In 2004, she and her family moved to Rochester, NY, where she continued to work as a nurse and became involved in the local Latino community.

In this interview, Edy discusses memories of her education and upbringing in Panama, the importance of continuing cultural traditions within her family, and why she became a nurse. She discusses the discrimination that she faced while working in healthcare and what she did to handle it. She also discusses how she came to work in Rochester and how she became involved in the Latino community there.