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The women’s movement had only just begun to take form, and while most of her fellow classmates went straight from the dorms of Radcliffe to the role of housewife, Alfaro opted to further her education. Alfaro continued her studies at Berkeley, then began teaching English at Boston...
In the 1970s, Alfaro decided to dedicate her time to raising her two children. It wasn’t until Alfaro and her husband moved to Canada that her writing really began to take off; while living there, she published 21 short stories.
“Plays are very different from writing short stories. You begin by yourself but then the actors comes in, and the director,” Alfaro said. “There is something very exciting about your characters turning into flesh and blood. You are amazed when the...
Alfaro also wrote and co-produced a short documentary titled “Japanese American Women: A Sense of Place.” The film focuses on Alfaro and 12 other Japanese-American women as they struggle to find a place in a society dominated by stereotypes. Alfaro said she...
I had 11 roommates over my four years of Harvard, none of them for more than a year. That makes me sound rather dysfunctional, but I prefer to see my roommate roulette as a function of transferring Houses while taking a year off during college. That’s what...