Rose moved to the United States from Jamaica at the age of 14 . She has lived in New York City since and has flourished both academically and socially.
Here [in America], there was such a focus on, uhm, whether you’re black or white or Hispanic or something, and it was weird to have to like classify myself as something that I didn’t really think about before. And so like going into the future just kind of concerns me about like the kind of society I live in and you know like how that will affect me or my children or anything like that.”
