Maria Depina was born in Cape Verde in 1969 and joined the rest of her extended family in Roxbury in 1980 . She started her education in Cape Verde and completed her degrees in USA, transitioning in and out of bilingual education, and became a teacher in Boston Public Schools. In 2013, she returned to Cape Verde for the first time with a community service trip with High School students. A project of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative and supported by a Mass Humanities project grant, Neighborhood Voices is an oral history project documenting the stories of families living in the Dudley Street neighborhood.
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