Mosaic is The Public’s Radio’s podcast on immigration, which has a community essay series. This week’s essay is by Osiris Grafals, a student at College Unbound. She writes about coming to the U.S. illegally when she was a child and the difficulties she faced growing up undocumented.
Pearl Marvell
Mosaic Community Producer
Pearl Marvell is a multimedia storyteller with experience writing, reporting and shooting for various publications, marketing and production companies. Born in the Caribbean to boat captains, Pearl spent her whole childhood onboard boats, including sailing around the world for two years. Pearl is now based in Newport, Rhode Island, and collects community essays for the Mosaic podcast.
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The Healing Journey
Mosaic is The Public’s Radio’s podcast on immigration, which has a community essay series. This week’s essay is by Ramonita Cuba Almonte of Warwick, Rhode Island. She writes about how she turned the abuse she experienced into something positive to help others.
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One step
Mosaic is The Public’s Radio’s podcast on immigration, which has a community essay series. This week’s essay is by Xuan Huynh. She writes about moving to the U.S. from Vietnam. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step” – Lao Tzu I moved to the United States with my children in October, 2019 […]
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The Secret of Chiqui Versace
In this special episode of Mosaic, our podcast on immigration, we introduce Chiqui Versace: a Rhode Island resident who came to the U.S. at 16, looking for work and hoping to support his family back in Colombia. He also came here to be his true self – to not have to hide anything about who he is. From the outside, Versace lived what appeared to be a normal life. For decades he was gainfully employed, paid taxes every year, and volunteered his time for charitable causes. But to stay here, to live the life he had always wanted to live, he had to carry a very big secret.
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Memories of abuelita
This week’s community essay is by Karla Vallejos of Providence, Rhode Island. She writes about her memories of her “abuelita” or grandmother who she lived with in Honduras.
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A new life
Mosaic is The Public’s Radio’s podcast on immigration, which has a community essay series. This week’s essay is by Shuk Chun Yiu. She writes about her experience of making the decision to move to the U.S. with her husband. Click on the orange button above to listen to this essay. My husband and I made […]
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Immigration: nothing is as it seems
Mosaic is The Public’s Radio’s podcast on immigration, which features a series of community essays. This one is by Susan Mills, a retired immigration attorney and author of On the Wings of a Hummingbird, a story about a young girl’s journey from Guatemala to the United States. She writes about some of her experiences with […]
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Giving birth in Poland
The Public’s Radio’s podcast Mosaic has a series of community essays. This essay is by Maria Grzybacz of Cumberland, Rhode Island. Before coming to the U.S. she lived in Poland where she gave birth to her first child. She compares the experience of giving birth there to the one she had with her other children […]
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Mosaic Community Essay: King Phillip
The Public’s Radio’s podcast Mosaic has a series of community essays. This one is by Cindy Sebrell of Little Compton, Rhode Island. For me, a seven-year-old girl growing up in southern New England in the 1970s, the great Indian Chief himself still stood in that cave 300 years later. I knew this because I felt […]
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Democracy and Ukraine
The Public’s Radio’s podcast on immigration, Mosaic, has a community essay series. This essay is by Dr. Michael Fine, a writer, community organizer, and family physician. He writes about going to the Ukrainian border to treat refugees and who helped him get there. When Russia invaded Ukraine, I tried to get there to help Ukrainians […]