Community Research is important as it provided a way to better understand the people around us. Migrating to a different country is an act of bravery. To leave your comfort zone, begin a new life from starch, a place where people speak, behave, and live differently.  From personal experience, I understand the tremendous effects immigrating can have on adults, children, and families. My mother is an immigrant, and worked her entire life in agricultural fields. We moved from state to state, she followed the agricultural seasons. At age 5 my parents got a divorced, so my mother worked from dusk to dawn to provide for 4 children. My biological father fled the country to avoid paying child support. My childhood was not what I saw on TV. There was no going to the movies, no days at the park with my mother, no water park days, there was none of that. In fact, I hardly ever saw my mother, except on Sundays when we all would go to church, followed by our weekly grocery run. This was by far the hardest stage of my life, but also the point in my life that built my strength, discipline, and character. Migrating to a different country requires a lot of sacrifice, in the case of my mother she sacrificed quality time with her children in order to have bread on the table. But everyone's migration story and life in the US is shaped differently. As a bilingual speaker I want to provide the Taller de Jose community an outlet for their narratives to be heard and understood by English speaking people in the Loyola and Chicago area community.