Alex Wagner

"Alex Wagner grew up with a patchwork picture of her identity. She was the daughter of two great waves of immigration: her Irish father's American roots were in the 19th century stream of Europeans looking to start over, and her Burmese mother arrived as part of the mid-20th-century wave of Asian and Latin American immigrants, fleeing their own civil wars and economic crises. Both sides of her family embraced America as their new home, leaving behind...