My name is
Sara Luzcando and I am working on the LIMPiAR project as a student research
assistant. As it
is mentioned in the title, the study focuses on Latina Immigrant women, who work
in the cleaning industry. As part of the research team I have helped develop
the survey in English, and as a Latina who speaks, writes and reads fluent English and Spanish I am
able to help the project translations to Spanish. Our research strategy
is Community Participatory Research (CBPR), this type of research is
participant focused. My
communication skill as a bilingual woman has offered comfort to the women that
are participants in the project. The participant’s in our study guide
our analyses, as well as they help with the recruitment of other participants
through snowball sampling.
I first became interested in
this project because of the name, I consider myself a Latina and I have always
been curious about helping others who surround me in my community, and other
communities that are difficult to reach and are in need of help. My work
experience has allowed me to develop organizational skills, as well as
communicative skills that have helped me succeed in this project through being
the main point of contact for interviews as well as the interview organizer.
In the past I have helped communities through
community service, and work nationally and internationally. I have done service
work in New Orleans by rebuilding homes for those who lost them during hurricane Katrina, and in the Dominican Republic by bringing water to a rural community.
My long term-goal is to continue to help either through studies that could
benefit the future of a specific community, or through service work for the
communities.
