WCL Raskin Book

When Jamie told me in 2003 that my three-year-old daughter would be just fine in AU’s Child Development Center (CDC), I never would have thought that it was to be such an important moment for our family. I never thought that she would not only be “just fine” but that she would thrive and remember her days there fondly. “Do I recommend CDC?” Jamie replied to my timid question. “Let me put it this way” he said. “We had another child just so that we could be back in CDC,” he playfully said with his characteristically good humor. This answer made the decision much easier for us. It reassured a first generation migrant couple from Colombia trying to learn and navigate the U.S. in all ways, including caring for toddlers. I am personally grateful to Jamie for this “little” gift to us. It is in this way that he and his family imprinted a piece of themselves in our family and in our daughter, Maya. And now, I am grateful and proud to have benefited personally and professionally fromworkingwith the delightful human being, and impactful citizen, who now is carrying on his shoulders the weight of this ‘life or death’ battle in the U.S. Congress for the soul of our delicate democracy. It is indeed a struggle for democracy here and elsewhere. We could not be better represented. Gracias, Jamie! Pa’ delante! Diego Rodriquez-Pinzon