Abstract
Siena is a biology major on the pre-medical track living in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Her essay grew out of her own experience, as she found the language she used with her peers “seemed to me to be filled with all the best modes of storytelling and socializing,” but it seemed to her that her teachers “didn’t always hear what I did and thus missed out on what the language I use has to offer.” Siena is also passionate about social justice, especially in the realm of education. Her mother lacked access to school in her home country of Brazil, and that has allowed Siena to develop a deep appreciation of her own educational opportunities.
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Edmunds, Siena Santos
(2026)
"The Languages We Speak and the Biases that Erase Them,"
Undercurrents: A Journal of Undergraduate Student Composition: Vol. 1:
Iss.
2, Article 8.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/undercurrents/vol1/iss2/8
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