“I’m now the Associate Producer at the Public Theater in New York City […] and when I think about my mother growing up in the Dominican Republic with no medicine, the youngest of nine, or my dad growing up in rural Spain, tending cows, and then them coming over here and meeting at a church dance in Jackson Heights and then trying to make a new life for themselves, I feel so lucky to be pursuing what I want to be pursuing, and I feel like I totally owe that to the education I got and the people I was surrounded by.”