NEW YORK – When Jacques Jiha settled in Brooklyn in 1979, his main goal was earning an education and gaining more opportunities than he could have had in his native Cap-Haitien. During his first six years, he woke up before dawn every day to work as a parking lot attendant. He went to bed at night after attending classes at Fordham University for his economics degree.
Those college years and those at The New School for a graduate degree were among the hardest of his life, he recalled. Yet, he never lost sight of his goals.
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