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Having immigrated to the United States at age 14, my developmental and cultural transition prompted me to ask, “Sino ako (Who am I)?” as both a Filipino and an American. Pérez Firmat’s book helped me understand this bicultural experience as “not an easy or stable achievement … where regression remains a constant temptation, as does assimilation.” Such a philosophy has been influential in my transdisciplinary work to understand and prevent the impact of adversity on children’s development and learning.