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Case Study: Sonia Sotomayor

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I chose Sonia Sotomayor because she faced a lot of challenges like diabetes when she was 7 years old.She also had a alcoholic father and died.Her mother worked two jobs or more to survive.She helped her cousin to buy drugs right before his death from AIDS().She also had to deal with discrimination by lawyers.She overcame lots.She injected herself for her diabetes because her mom worked 2 jobs and her dad was always drunk.She also got discriminated by other people because she was Hispanic. She overcame lots of obstacles that’s why I picked Sonia Sotomayor.

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