Steve Mundinger At the tender age of 6, Maria Tarajano-Rodman joined her parents in a life-changing move from Cuba to the United States. Many years later, she knows what it means to pack up and leave your homeland for better opportunities somewhere else. At the age of 10, she was the neighborhood babysitter. By 14 she was cleaning offices at night, and she worked through her college years at the University of Florida, where she received a full-ride, four-year scholarship. She was an active participant in her parents’ dream of buying and owning their own home. Five months ago and more than 50 years after setting foot in the U.S., she accepted a job in the Roaring Fork Valley leading a nonprofit devoted to supporting immigrants.