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Dora Lopez is a Mexican-American female that was born in a Texas border town where her grandparents worked as farm laborers. When she was still a baby, her family moved to a Midwest university town where both her mother and father attended college. Her father worked as a shipping and receiving clerk at the university, and her mother worked part time in a bookstore. Navigating the new town was difficult for Dora's family due to the lack of Spanish resources. Dora came from a low income family and wasn't introduced to computers until the age of 13. In college, Dora worked for a cleaning company where she completed other tasks such as translating and communicating on her supervisor's behalf, since majority of the staff she worked with was Latina. While Dora did turn out to be successful, she had to work much harder than others in her town to get where she was, due to lack of resources and information.

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B. Types of Sponsorships & Literacy Skills/Opportunities

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B. Types of Sponsorships & Literacy Skills/Opportunities

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A sponsor that was influential to Dora's literacy skills could be her mother, and the fact that she worked at a bookstore. Working at a bookstore allowed her to get discounts on several novels by Mexican and American writers, which improved her Spanish speaking skills. Her parent's access to services such as the university's mailroom, bookstore, and second hand technology market allowed Dora to improve her literacy while coming from a low income family that couldn't afford much of these things on their own. This serves as a sponsor because they served a role in molding her into the biliterate person that she was. I also think that, in a way, Dora's supervisor and staff served as a sponsor because since they were largely Latina, translating and communicating with them often led to the improvement of Dora's Spanish speaking skills, which ultimately played a role in her biliteracy career.

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As said previously, some of Dora's most influential sponsors to her literacy skills could be her mother & the fact that she worked at a bookstore. Working at a bookstore gave Dora access to several novels written by both Mexican and American authors. These had a huge influence on her upbringing and identity, being that they played an important role in the fabrication of her biliteracy skills. Working with staff that was majority Latina also had an impact on Dora's biliteracy skills, because of the fact that she was always translating things for her supervisor and staff. Her biliterate skills paid off down the road once she became involved in government-sponsored youth programs and commercial enterprises, earning herself a living.

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Unlike the male counterpart in the story, Raymond Branch, Dora did not have easy access to many resources in her community due to her socioeconomic status and background. When Brandt say that Dora had "to reach much further afield for communicative systems needed to support her learning", she's basically saying that in order to get the resources she needed to succeed, Dora had to go the extra mile. Not everything was handed to her like it was to others.

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In my college experience, I've seen literacy sponsorship through my professors and even my own family. Although my family currently lives overseas in Germany, they've still been extremely helpful in helping me with adjusting to college workload. My professors, for the most part, have been providing me with the necessary tools that I need to pass my classes and earn my degree here at Howard University. None of my sponsors are necessarily gaining anything from me for their own benefit, but I know that they are all here to help me because they want to see me succeed.

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I believe the threshold concept that writing is impacted by identities and prior experiences resonates the most with the person I was assigned, Dora Lopez. Growing up as a Mexican-American woman, as well as growing up reading novels written by both Mexican-Americans and Americans, impacted not only Dora's biliteracy skills, but her literacy skills as a whole. Without the experience of working in a Spanish speaking environment and the privilege of having access to novels by Spanish speaking authors, Dora's biliteracy skills probably wouldn't be as polished as they are.