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Meet Yazmín García, known by friends and family as Yaz. She and her family are from Monterrey, Mexico, where she worked as a chemist in a food lab for seven years in the nutrition and physiochemistry departments. She really enjoyed her work at the lab, especially the chance to put into practice all the theories and skills she learned in university, such as using high-performance liquid chromatography to analyze the components of different foods. Yazmín, her husband, and their

Joel Nava, who was born in 1959 in Mexico City, Mexico, grew up in a big family with 10 siblings.  Joel attended the Instituto Politecnico Nacional, where he earned a degree in business administration. He then had a successful career working for the Mexican government as chief of the Office of Land Reform from 1982 to 1988.  During these years, Joel also married his wife, Josephina, and they began a family of their own.  Joel describes their move to the United States as a hap

Nara (right) working with a fellow student to learn new vocabulary and the verb “to be” during an early summer 2022 Conversational English class at BIIN. Every Wednesday night, student Nara Vera is the first to arrive at the Conversational English classes offered at BIIN. She’s always ready to learn with a notebook full of last week’s worksheets and a new set of brightly-painted nails. Nara has never missed a class, and is the first to answer questions and help her classmates