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" Presenting on international human rights advocacy was finally the moment to give back, but with that came an unexpected set of feelings. My biggest fear was to appear unprofessional and fail to control my emotions. While I wanted to make a connection with the attendants, I also wanted to be taken seriously and be seen as a legal expert.  I also wondered whether my Spanish would be good enough. In preparing for my trip, I resumed reading in Spanish, whatever it was. I listened to the Spanish language songs in my Ipod. Instead of the usual Spanglish, I spoke to my parents only in Spanish. I even forced my partner (a Salvadoran American) to speak Spanish with me. While I have always claimed my Latin American identity, I could not help but feel guilty about my American education. During my intellectual formative years, I had deplored imperialist and patriarchal structures and was now afraid of becoming the figure I had abhorred. And, on the day that I met the women I was very intimidated. These were women who are community leaders, journalists, social workers, women representing Afro-Ecuadorian and indigenous populations, lawyers\u2014women who were certainly experienced in advocating for their constituencies. Some of them were older than my mother and others were wise beyond their years. I wished to be sitting and learning among them rather than presenting alone before them. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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