Sonia Manzano, the creator and executive producer of 'Alma's Way' who memorably starred as Maria on 'Sesame Street,' discusses how she got the Supreme Court justice on the show.
for more than 40 years. Like Sotomayor, Manzano grew up in the Bronx and the series is based on her childhood. “We jokingly refer to each other as ‘the other Sonia from the Bronx,’” Manzano says about the Supreme Court justice.
When Alma and her brother meet the justice, she is dressed casually in front of the Bronx housing complex she grew up in and that was renamed after her in 2010.I thought it was important that kids see she was a kid too at some point in her life, and she lived in those projects that we see her waiting in front with a cleverly placed Puerto Rican flag. It showed her roots, that she’s like a lot of children, and what she might wear when she is not in her robe.Our judicial system is fairly complex.
The basis of the show is critical thinking and separating one idea from another. I’m taller and he’s shorter so I’m always going to get there first. Is that fair? That is a great example of separating one idea from another and, as I’m sure you’ve witnessed, we as Americans are kind of losing that capacity.It’s important that kids know at an early age how things work. The mechanics of things. How a restaurant works, for example.
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