Running natalia sylvester5/11/2023 “Suddenly it all made sense,” says Sylvester. But that all changed when she came across a brochure about the College’s Creative Writing major. She expressed herself in poetry and fiction and decided to try a career in journalism at the University of Miami. She grew up in Florida and the Rio Grande Valley in Texas her family finally settled in Miami when she was in seventh grade. “It’s about translation and realizing the power that language has to separate and create division, but also unite.” Born in Lima, Peru, Sylvester came to the U.S. “The idea to write this piece came from a place of personal experience,” says Sylvester. The piece, a reflection on language and diversity, draws on her experiences as an interpreter and mediator in those spaces where Spanish-speakers and English-speakers sometimes meet-and connections are sometimes lost. The discovery that language, and the stories it carries, is not a straight path.” Natalia Sylvester, B.A.’06, shared these words in her opinion piece “The Beauty of Being Bilingual,” which was published this past September in the New York Times. “I used to think that being bilingual is what made me a writer, but more and more I see it’s deeper than that.
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