Kamini
"Both my father and mother always wanted us to have as much education as we could. They didn’t have very much opportunity. So, I think that was what propelled me.|
I was the first one in my family, actually, to get in to do A Levels. You had to pay for university but there weren’t very many places. So, if you wanted a university degree, you pretty much had to leave. Also, as a good Indian Hindu girl you ought to be waiting to have an arranged marriage and not even speaking with boys after puberty. Moving away was a more acceptable way to become independent than to move out of your parents' house and set up house as a single girl in Trinidad. So, my goal in going was to work for a couple of years, try to save a little money and try to get into university. Which was what I did."
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Kamini was born in Trinidad in the mid 1950s. She immigrated to Canada as a 19-year-old where she pursued a university degree and met her husband. They moved to the Boston area eight years ago. They came to Pennsylvania in 2001 when she was offered a teaching position at Penn State University. They have two daughters.
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