Word: centro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most impressive thing about Jennifer is her commitment to Centro Presente. It seem to me to be an incredibly difficult job, one that requires her to get involved politically and psychologically. She's thoroughly committed to it, and in a lot of ways, she takes the job home with her," says Gordon's roommate Betty Achinstein...
...because of Jennifer that a lot of Harvard students work here now. She's advertised our legal program a lot, and very successfully," says Sister Rose Mary Cummins, co-founder of Centro Presente...
...addition to using her Spanish for her work at Centro Presente, Gordon has used her knowledge of languages to do legal and medical translating for Linguistics Systems International. She also used to volunteer as a Spanish translator at Massachusetts General Hospital...
Gordon says that now, especially when she walks through Central Square, she often runs into her clients from Centro Presente and meets their families. "My life is divided between my Central American friends and that whole community on the one hand, and the Harvard community on the other...
...Harvard friends say she provides as much emotional strength and support to them as she does for her Centro Presente ones. "She's a social worker for many people. Friends really come to her with their problems a lot," says Achinstein...