More Than Words - How Language Changes Everything at the English Empowerment Center

What if you couldn’t tell a doctor what hurts or understand a teacher’s note your child brought home? In this episode of the We’re Good Podcast, host Lee Ann Necessary Brownlee explores how Executive Director of the English Empowerment Center, Roopal Mehta Saran and Volunteer Teacher, Kathleen McCleary are helping immigrants across Northern Virginia build confidence, connection, and opportunity through language. Through powerful stories—a wife unable to communicate in an emergency room to a trained surgeon working in construction learning English to rebuild his life—this conversation reveals how learning English opens doors and changes lives. Listen to learn more and find us at weregood.net.