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Abstract Alice Young is a career teacher and principal who has lived most of her life in Brooklyn. She begins the interview by sharing the story of her family’s immigration to the United States and about her family’s laundry business. Alice reminisces about her childhood and school life leading up to her time at Brooklyn College, where she studied to become an elementary school teacher. As an NYC school teacher, she worked in different boroughs including Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. She...