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...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...
...Gordon has combined her extracurricular interests explicitly with her academic ones. A special concentrator in Latin American Studies, she is particularly interested in the problems of refugees...
...Jennifer is really a first-rate student," says Instructor in Social Studies Marta Gil, Gordon's thesis adviser. "She's very unassuming. She could really have a brilliant future in academia, but I have a feeling that her deep interest in social issues will prevail...
...Gordon's involvement with refugee issues and her compassion for their problems manifests itself in other spheres of her life. A poem she wrote, Manuela in Boston, which won first place last year in the Jane Grey Untermeyer poetry contest, expresses the spirit of the refugee experience...
...Gordon understands many languages. Fluent in Spanish and proficient in French, she has also studied Russian, Gaelic, Quechua (the second language of Peru), and she is currently learning Portuguese...