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Dorothy Roberts: Bringing Different Perspectives into Class<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University of Pennsylvania<\/a>
\nMultimedia<\/a>
\n2015-02-12<\/p>\n

When Dorothy Roberts<\/a> was 3 months old, she moved with her parents from Chicago<\/a> to Liberia<\/a>, where her mother, Iris, had worked as a young woman after leaving Jamaica<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was the first of Dorothy\u2019s many trips abroad, and one during which her father, Robert<\/a>, took a bunch of photographs and filmed home movies with his 16-millimeter<\/a> camera. The Roberts family moved back to Chicago when Dorothy was 2, and she can recall weekly screenings of the 16-milimeter reels from Liberia in the living room.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a very strong interest in learning about other parts of the world from when I was very little,\u201d says Roberts, the 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor<\/a>. \u201cMy whole childhood revolved around learning about other parts of the world and engaging with people from around the world.\u201d…<\/p>\n