Hey, my name is Cait McCarthy.
Nice to meet you.
I am a lot of things; I am 18, a Brooklynite, a New Yorker, a student, an actress, an undecided major, and three generations away from being anything close to an immigrant. My father’s parents came from Ireland in the 1950s, and my mother’s parents have pretty much been here since the Mayflower. So, in a way, my family were some of my first immigrants.
Even though I didn’t pass through Ellis Island like my family did over 60 years ago, I have seen my fair share of changing neighborhoods, and could pretty much rattle off what groups live in any given Brooklyn neighborhood with the wink of an eye. We live in a land of immigrants, and we’re all living in the heart of it.
