Two Languages One Community

This one hour documentary film by Blanca Bonilla and Veronica Wells begins with a close look at the challenges of bilingual education in Boston beginning in the early 70s. Margarita Muniz, a pioneer of two way bilingual education. You will witness her determination, leaving her family in Cuba, her strength to begin her life as an orphan in the USA and her persistence to fight to become a leader in education. Margarita had the tools her students needed to lead the next generations of Latinos in this city, state and the nation.