Teresa Villamarin discusses immigrating from Bogota, Colombia as a teenager with her family to New York City for better opportunities, and her eventual journey to Charlotte, North Carolina. She discusses the conservative culture of her native Colombia and its rigid gender roles, and compares it with the feminist and counterculture ideas that she encountered in New York City in 1969. She recounts getting married then moving to Hickory, North Carolina for her husband's job and experiencing the very different, slower paced culture there. Other topics include working with the poor, her support of Latinos and Latinas becoming more politically active, and her graduate education at Appalachian State. Toward the end of the interview, photographs by Latinx artists are discussed as part of the Levine Museum project.