Episode 3: A Box of Money and a Change of Heart

The Immigrant Perspective · Mar 25, 2026 · 59m

Episode 3 takes me to the living room of two people I'm genuinely lucky to know. Ben Zimunya was born in Zimbabwe in 1985, navigated a nomadic childhood through Kenya and Tanzania, attended boarding school in a different country than his parents for all of high school, and landed in Chattanooga, Tennessee in the summer of 2003 with $800 and a plan that stretched maybe one semester ahead. Cara, who many of you know as the kind of teacher who checks in on her 5th graders' mental health during a pandemic, is his wife, a Tennessee native, and an extraordinarily honest voice for what it's like to…