Dan-El Padilla Peralta recounts his remarkable life story in the bestselling memoir, Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League (2015). The child of a Dominican mother who overstayed an emergency medical visa, Padilla arrived in the U.S. at the age of four, and grew up in homeless shelters in New York City while his mother struggled to earn a living as a cleaning lady. Now a Professor of Classics at Princeton, he is regarded as “one of the best classicists to emerge in his generation” (Wall St. Journal).