Claudia Aranda Aupart

For many years, I thought of myself as a confident woman. In my home country, I knew how to navigate the world around me. I spoke the language. I understood the culture and its unspoken social rules. I knew how to express myself. I trusted my abilities, and I knew who I was professionally. I felt, as we say in Spanish, como pez en el agua—like a fish in water. Then I immigrated to Canada. And I discovered something I had never expected: You can cross a border carrying the same education, the...