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, she comments on how easy it was for her to fit in, in part because she attended a high school with many other Jamaicans:
I didn’t really have a difficult time fitting in. People were pretty friendly. If there were any initial reservations, it’s probably just because of my natural shyness and the fact that I don’t just open up to people very quickly, but I think people were very welcoming and plus I went to high school where were a lot of Jamaican people there so it was kind of a shared cultural background and I was able to fit in easily.”
