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I come from a very working-class background.

I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.

I grew up in New York.

I've been pretty career-focused since moving to New York.

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.

I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else.

I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.

I'm an upstate New York lifer.