Karen Jaime was born and raised on Long Island, New York by a single Dominican mother who immigrated to New York in her twenties. Dominican cultural norms — the food, speaking Spanish at home (her mother was proficient but not fluent in English) — and community formations informed her upbringing. And, as someone who self-identifies as a woman, she feels comfortable under the label “Latina,” or “ Latina/o/x,” a term that refers to people of Latin American descent who are either born, raised, or have a lived experience in the United States, including Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean. Read more.
