From invisible to influential | Dr. Ginny Baro | TEDxThird Ward

Please welcome Dr. . Jenny A. Barrow.I'm hiding under my mother's bed as my father is pounding on the door. Boom. Boom. Boom.My heart is racing. I'm petrified about what will happen to my mother and me. So, I shrink even smaller, hoping invisibility will keep us both safe.And in that moment, at only five years old, I make a silent vow. This will not be my life. When I turned 14, we left the Dominican Republic and moved to the United States carrying this vow in my heart.I didn't speak English. I didn't under ...