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affected my current career. On a more general note, working as an editor on theLiteracy Review taught me empathy and respect for multiple perspectives. Theselessons help me on a daily basis, as I navigate through the personalities, writingstyles and manners of teenage expression that I encounter working in a New YorkCity high school setting.”GALLATIN alumnae Introduction12Emma Gilmore, a Literacy Review, Volume 4, photographer, spent fouryears in Bologna, Italy as a translator and interpreter. Her interviews with andphotos of immigrants in Bologna became part of the Gallatin Writing Programbook Where I’m From. She is now a pre-med student at NYU. In her medicalpractice, she plans to concentrate on women’s health.“One of the founding ideas of the Literacy Project is that everyone has avoice worth hearing, even if they’re not speaking in their native language or don’thave a grammar handbook nearby. For a project that became part of Where I’mFrom, I interviewed seven women, all immigrants to Italy, who gave selflessly tomy project and have enjoyed the results. But I believe that I was the luckiest ofall, as their stories and willingness to share touched me deeply and continue toinfluence me today. I decided to enroll in pre-med classes because of the directcontact medicine provides with patients and people in need. The Literacy Projectwas one of the first platforms where I saw the enormous and positive impactthat personal contact can have. I am truly grateful for the experiences that I hadthrough the Literacy Project and I’m incredibly proud to say I took part in it.”Rachel Nusbaum was a Literacy Review, Volume 7, photographer.After graduation, she moved to Seoul, Korea for a year to teach English at a publicmiddle school. Awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in 2009, shewent to the Czech Republic to teach, and to make a documentary film.“The Literacy Review’s quality reflects the love that everyone involvedbrings to this project. As an artist, it is thrilling to make work whose impact youcan see and which brings joy to others. Photographing the published authors, aswell as the hard-working literacy teachers and their equally dedicated students,provided just such an opportunity. Meeting and working with such a diverse groupof people—many highly accomplished, many with incredible backgrounds, allbrave enough to tackle the challenge of English literacy as adults—was at once