The Unlikely Librarian: Director Makes Library a Safe Space for Pinewoods Community
It’s not typical for a teacher to stop their instruction for an interruption such as this one, but Evelyn Rushing is anything but typical.
In fact, it wasn’t long ago that Rushing was in the shoes of many of the women in her English class today.
Perhaps all too well, she knows the struggles of navigating a world in which English isn’t your first language.
The frustration of constant miscommunications, the sting of being misunderstood, and the courage it takes to keep learning.
Rushing, 45, a petite woman with jet black hair that falls to her shoulders dresses in dark slacks and brighter blouses, but nothing extravagant, perhaps a lingering tendency from her childhood in Peru, where she grew up in a loving home no larger than the Pinewood Library’s computer room.
In fact, it wasn’t long ago that Rushing was in the shoes of many of the women in her English class today.
Perhaps all too well, she knows the struggles of navigating a world in which English isn’t your first language.
The frustration of constant miscommunications, the sting of being misunderstood, and the courage it takes to keep learning.
Rushing, 45, a petite woman with jet black hair that falls to her shoulders dresses in dark slacks and brighter blouses, but nothing extravagant, perhaps a lingering tendency from her childhood in Peru, where she grew up in a loving home no larger than the Pinewood Library’s computer room.
