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You know the lyrics, “There is a season, turn, turn, turn…” BIIN is turning a page this season, and as the organization adapts to some significant changes in the composition of its staff, we wanted to turn the mic to the two people who are stepping down: Jaimi Washburn, outgoing Director, and Janet Morford, who will also wrap up her term as Communications and Development Coordinator this fall. Jaimi and Janet have worked closely together on everything from supervising inter

Meet Juanita Garza. She is from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. After being raised in, getting married and starting a family in Nuevo Laredo, Juanita did not expect to come to the United States. Her husband had a stable job working in a factory in Laredo, a neighboring town across the U.S.-Mexico border, and she was with her 8 children and her extended family. But after her husband received a job offer in Bryan, she visited the city and eventually moved here with her family in the 1980

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

Members of the 2022-23 BIIN Board of Directors gather in September 2022. From left to right: Susan Dennis, Angela Rios, Judith Briseno, Maria Martinez, Nancy Plankey-Videla, Michelle Esparza, and Tere Vega. Photo credit: Mary Campbell. Important transitions are underway at BIIN: one change occurs every fall, as some members of the board of directors pass the baton to new leaders, and new members join. Here, we want to thank outgoing board members for their service and also h

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

Non-profit organizations rely on the involvement, support and leadership of many people. But when someone who has served the organization in a key role for many years steps down, it’s vital to acknowledge the impact that this person has had. Jaimi Washburn served BIIN for over four and a half years, from February 2018 when she was hired as Program Manager, and then from September 2020 through October 2022 as Director. Jaimi was the first steady staff member in BIIN’s histo

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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