This week I am sharing the story that started it all. Learning My Place in This World began as a submission to a writing competition at New Philosopher magazine. Eventually, the story was published in 2017 at Teachers College Record, a peer review journal at Columbia University. This story was hard for me to write because it wove the personal with the political, juxtaposed what the research said with how my life unfolded. Without further ado…this is Learning My Place in This World.