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About Samantha — Creator of Multilingual Me

Sam Cruz didn't grow up with a single hometown or a single family. She grew up across cultures—not because she planned it that way, but because she was looking for belonging and kept finding it in unexpected places.

Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Sam learned early that connection doesn't always come through blood. It comes through showing up, listening, and sometimes stumbling through a new language until someone meets you halfway. That's how she picked up American Sign Langauge (ASL) and Spanish at home, French in college, and later—through teaching chemistry in West Africa, English in China, and more chemistry in Mozambique—a working knowledge of what it feels like to be the one who doesn't quite have the words yet. (Mandarin still humbles her.)

Today, Sam works as a medical laboratory scientist, helping leukemia patients by day and thinking about language by night. She's a scientist, yes, but also someone who's been the intermediate learner more times than she can count—stuck between "I know some things" and "I'm still not fluent." That messy middle is exactly where she designed Multilingual Me.

Her mission isn't to inspire you with her story. It's to give you a tool that would have helped her at her most frustrated—and to remind you that every language you're learning is another door you're choosing to open.