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The Broad Experience

Episode 156: An Immigrant's Tale

The Broad Experience

The Broad Experience

Careers, Society & Culture, Business

5.0592 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Fernanda Santos moved to the U.S. from Brazil to go to graduate school, but ended up staying and forging a career in journalism. Her work is a thread throughout this episode (she was an early believer in the mantra ‘never work for free’). But this story is also about how Fernanda's immigrant experience, and her journalist training, helped when she was forced to confront a future she never expected.

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0:37.8

Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace, and success. I'm Ashley Milntite.

0:56.3

This time, coming to a new country, settling into the culture, and working within it,

1:02.8

all that experience can help when the unexpected happens. I adapted pretty quickly, you know.

1:10.5

This is my new circumstance, and I have to figure out how to go forward from here.

1:16.0

Obviously, I look back, but I can't be tied to that because it's going to weigh me down.

1:21.6

Coming up on the broad experience. I first spotted Fernandez Santos' name in the newspaper. This was more than five years

1:38.1

ago now. She was reporting for the New York Times, and I used to read her stories written from the

1:43.8

U.S. border with Mexico.

1:46.4

Today, she teaches journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University,

1:52.3

specifically narrative writing and bilingual journalism. Her first language is Portuguese.

1:58.5

She also speaks English and Spanish. I think I've wanted to be something

2:04.2

along the lines of a journalist as far back as I can remember. And the reason is that I have

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