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"The 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...
When Gordon started working for Centro Presente in June, 1985, there were almost no Harvard students involved in the group. Now, more than half a dozen students serve as paralegals at the organization, Butterfield says.
"It's 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.
In 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."