OP-ED: Please support Rosamaria Graziani, your Hometown Hero, in the Hyundai …

You might not know about the amazing woman who lives right in your hometown, my good friend Rosamaria Graziani, but I’m hoping that I can help her earn your vote in the Hyundai Hometown Heroes contest being run by King 5. Rosamaria is a professional Spanish-English translator who started Academia Latina so that she could provide free ESL classes to her community in Lynnwood. Academia Latina does so much to help new immigrants in our area assimilate and pursue the American dream.  Lynnwood Times Photo by Luke Putvin. Rosamaria Graziani (third from left) and Academia Latina students at Star Spangled Spectacular at Benaroya Hall on July 3, 2019. SOURCE: Rosamaria Graziani. Over the years, whenever I have an idea to help the community, Rosamaria is typically one of the first people I call. In 2021, when the deadly heat dome was settling over the Puget Sound region, I asked Rosamaria whether she would like to go out with a group of friends and me into the 90°+ heat to pass out donations I had raised through my law firm’s “Summer Survival Kits” donation drive. Rosamaria came to Edmonds to pick up some of the personal fans, batteries, ORCA cards, food
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