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Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford: A Jewish children’s author with a Mexican heart
When Roni Capin was growing up in Nogales, AZ, there was no wall bordering the United States and Mexico. Her paternal grandmother, Nana Lil, was a Bracker, and grandfather, Papa Sam, was a Capin – both were pioneer Jewish families – who went back and forth from their city of Nogales to Nogales, Sonora, Mexico….
