I wish someone told me not to get off the car when stopped by a cop as a sign of respect for them.
I wish someone told me not to pick up random kids in the park and kiss them on the cheeks like we do on Morocco without being considered psychos.
In this stunning work of historical fiction, Laila Lalami brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of Americaa Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record.
I am a regulatory action leader with the Biopesticides Division at the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA). I perform both risk assessment and management of the scientific data submitted to support the registration biopesticides under section 3 of FIFRA (Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act). I also represent the Agency, attend conferences and give presentations in the US and abroad, about biopesticide regulation.