Undocumented to Princeton

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 28, 2015

Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Mellon Research Fellow at Columbia University and author of Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League (Penguin Press, 2015), writes of his journey from a homeless shelter to navigating college life as an undocumented immigrant to graduating from Princeton, Oxford and Stanford.

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