Literacy Map

• Dora Lopez, an interviewee from the Brandt piece was born in a texas border town where her grandparents worked as farm laborers. Her parents moved her to a Midwest town when she was still a baby.The town's mexican population was barely one percent.
• Her parents had decent jobs, her mom worked in a bookstore while her dad was a shipping and receiving clerk at the local university. They had to drive seventy miles to get groceries and spanish magazines and newspapers. Politically they were the minority and underrepresented in their midwestern town. 
• Dora taught herself how to read and write in spanish, and thanks to her moms bookstore discount she sometimes could afford buying novels from latino authors.
• Lopez's sponsors seem to be her parents. It was very important to Dora to be able to communicate in spanish and she did what most kids will not, she taught herself. Her mom luckily worked at a bookstore of all places so she had access to the tools she needed to accomplish that goal. Her father bought her a used word processing machine he saw advertised at the university. His job was another resource that furthered her literacy. 
• Later on, Dora got a job at a cleaning company where her bilingual skills paid off. She would translate between the staff and the supervisor. Overall, even though Dora was a minority in her small her town the resources around her gave her the opportunity to accomplish the goals she wanted.