New York, NY –
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor captured the attention of millions of Americans during her confirmation hearings this week. some more so than others:
Twenty year old Zila Acosta comes from a part-Puerto Rican, part-Dominican family. Her mother is a school principal, and her father is a judge. Acosta is a student at Columbia University, but she also works for a political consulting group run by two prominent Puerto Ricans. So she thought a lot this week about how a person's background has an impact on what they do.
Her story was prduced by WNYC's Marianne McCune.
Marianne McCune is a staff reporter for New York Public Radio (WNYC 93.9FM/AM820) and contributes regularly to National Public Radio and Public Radio International. She thinks of the New York Metropolitan Area as the center of the world because that's how she covers it: more than a third of New York residents were born in another country and Marianne reports on the resulting cultural, economic, and political links between New York/New Jersey and almost everywhere else on earth.
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