The latino show magazine, which heads up this event. Welcome to you both. Congratulations. Number 5 . Number 5. Yes. Manhattan . Manhattan, yes. Why the big move . cause the show got so big, you needed more room. Because its always been the goal and the vision to actually be here at the center of new york, bring a multicultural audience everything that is latino and bridge that gap. Well tell people where it is and when it is in just a few minutes, but the goal, the hope of this show is what . To bring, actually, light to many designers from america, other countries and just get exposed and actually connect with the public, and also even just anyone thats interested in fashion, the music of latin america. Yes. And is it a networking opportunity, therefore . Yes, it is Networking Opportunities in all the Different Industries of both music, fashion, business, entertainment, health. Were gonna have exhibitors in addition to the different showcases of music and fashion. So is it geared more for the general public or more for businesses and designers or perhaps all of them . All of them pretty much. Yeah. Okay. Its an event that the family can go to, and, by the same token, Small Businesses and big businesses can go and join, and they will all benefit from it. If youve been doing it for a few years now, what have you learned from years past as you gear up for this next one . That it is something that people will go to and that there is an actual gain out of it. The Networking Opportunities and experiences that we have encountered throughout the years have been a positive one. Have you heard that from years past from designers who attended the show and said, listen, after the show, i met so and so, and we connected, and, all of a sudden, my fashion is in her shop . Completely. Its also just the fact that their names have gotten out there even more, and, all of a sudden, you get recognized. You no longer say, ooh, who is this person . , but the fact that you actually can drop the name. Yes. And you know who this person is. Yes. Someone once told me network or not work. Exactly. You have to network and you have to meet people so that you can crosspromote and get your product in their place and vice versa. Talk to me about the logistics of setting up an event like this. I mean, did i see correctly youve got 10,000 attendees . Yes, thats what we are expecting. It is a pretty extensive process. Endeavor. When does it start . It starts as soon as the show ends. [ laughs ] as soon as one ends, we start for the next one. Exactly. And its a matter of thinking as to how we want to make it better for the next time, what did we do right, what can be improved, and who do we want to bring next time that we didnt have and how do we want to make it bigger, better . Weve teased people enough. Where is the show . When will it take place . It will take place on thursday and friday, september 10th and 11th at the new yorker on 34th street and 8th avenue. Okay. Is there a cost . Its open to a general public. There will be some shows where well have a small fee, but the public can enjoy all the amenities of the expo. When you say shows Fashion Shows . Fashion shows, music you know, some dance. So its really a global aspect. I saw some video at the top. I mean, theres a runway, correct, and different designers are parading their different fashions on the runway . Yes, and if you go on our facebook page, you can see the lineup of designers and necessarily whats happening dance, music. Todays sunday. The shows in a couple of days. If im watching this interview, and i still want to be part of the show, is it too late . Its not too late. You can go to our page. We will have the Contact Information there, and you can still be part of the whole show. And what accommodations do you have to make to meet the needs of a designer who wants to be in the show . Room . Do you give them a corner, a location for them to gear up . Process. With the designers, they pretty much just have to provide collection. So we provide the models, makeup artists, hairstylists, and the models, and depending on what their need is, and theres a model casting, and pretty much they just have to show their work. All right. Sit tight because weve talked about the fashion, but theres also food, theres music. Lets talk about that when we come back. Sit tight. When we come back on tiempo, more on latinoshow expo 2015. Also, still ahead look at this. This is a new book. Its just out. Its called undocumented a dominican boys odyssey from a homeless shelter to the ivy league. Well talk to the author of this autobiography in just a few minutes. Take a look at these bbq trophies best cracked pepper sauce. Most ribs eaten while calf roping. Yep, greatness deserves recognition. You got any trophies, cowboy . Whoomp there it is uh, yeah. Well, uh, well theres this one. Best insurance mobile app . Yeah, two years in a row. Well ill be. Does that thing just follow you around . Like a little puppy the awardwinning geico app. Download it today. Welcome back to tiempo. Expo latinoshow 2015 comes to manhattan later this week. Weve been talking about it. It features participants from more than 10 countries. Two days of fashion, music, beauty, entertainment, lifestyle. Cesar florez, Oscar Caballero from the latino show magazine, they are the ones who have worked so hard to put this event together. Lets give credit where credits due. Five years ago, this show is the brainchild of who . Alvaro altamirano. And who is alvaro . He is the president of the company, Alvaro Altamirano entertainment, under which falls latino show magazine and the expo. Did he have an epiphany . What led him to decide, we need this. The Latino Community needs this . Hes always had the idea hes worked with events since a very young age, and once he got here to new york, he always envisioned exposing all the culture, all the talent that we have in our country, in particular, and bringing it to the world especially in new york, which is the melting pot of such a culture. Your country in particular would be . Y . Nicaragua. Y nicaragua. But you have representatives and people from . From brazil, Dominican Republic, puerto rico, and new york. Yes, of course. Give me some of the companies or some of the artists or some of the fashion designers who people will see. Sure. We have Manuel Palferez from the Dominican Republic. Yeah. Adrian alicea. We have, actually, also sonja morgan now from the housewives of new york city. So its becoming pretty much international show. You guys told me during the break to bring your dancing shoes. Most definitely. Why so . Yes, there is a music showcase, and theres a lineup with a lot of different artists like giselle gastell, magic juan. Right. So its gonna be very entertaining. Its gonna be full of energy and full of flavor latin style for the world. Mmhmm. Salsa . Merengue . A little bit of everything. We have deejays, as well. Youll have deejays, as well. Theres also a Business Aspect to this, correct . Yes. In what sense . There are two Big Companies coming from colombia who are offering the opportunity to purchase your own home, buy property, and there will be discussion panels as to how you can go about it and how to facilitate that for people who are living here and how you dont have to be from there. So its advice or counsel, if you will. Yes, you have both advice, and you have the opportunity to do so, as well. Okay. Were wrapping up. I want to put up the full screen one more time so that people can see it. Theres still time to attend the event. Here it is. Its coming up september 10th and 11th. Starts at 11 00 in the morning, runs just about all day, right . It will go to about 9 00 at night. You said the last fashion show is at 8 00 . 8 00. 8 00. Its on thursday. Continued success, guys. This is great, and next year even bigger, even better for sure. Yes, sir. Thats the goal. Thank you, guys, very much. Thank you for having us, joe. Coming up next on tiempo, a book out now undocumented a dominican boys odyssey from a homeless shelter to the ivy league. We will talk to the author and hear his story next. [ cheers and applause ] a wave of gameday excitement is rolling into dunkin. Taste the new tailgater breakfast sandwich, stacked with smoked sausage, fireroasted peppers, and onions. America runs on dunkin. Dunkin donuts dark roast coffee is deliciously roasted for a bold start and smooth finish. For a limited time, ddperks members can get any size dark roast coffee for 99 cents. Ddperks. Thats loyalty. America runs on dunkin. Firsttime book author danel Padilla Peralta arrived here in new york from the Dominican Republic as a child, and he faced many obstacles as an undocumented immigrant, but he overcame them all to attend an ivy league school. Well, he now teaches at Columbia University here in new york city as a postdoctoral fellow in humanities. You see the book cover there. At the young age of 30, hes published his first book, he tells me this one about his upbringing, his education, his life experience. It is called undocumented a dominican boys odyssey from a homeless shelter to the ivy league. Danel Padilla Peralta joins us to talk about his book. Congratulations. Oh, thank you so much. The book hit store shelves when . July 28th. July 28th. How are sales . I do not ask these questions of my publisher. You dont. I prefer to keep it all unknown. You just sort of sit back, and whatever happens happens. Indeed. Congratulations on your story. Were gonna get into some of the details, but take me to that moment, that epiphany the word i used earlier when it came to you, that it said, you know what . I should write a book about my life, my history, where its taken me so far . When did that happen . It happened 2006. I was a senior at princeton at the time, and a wall street journal article had come out about my life, and people started asking, well, why dont you write a book about it . And you said, okay. Sounds good. At first i thought, no. Im not sure i want to write a book, but then i slowly came around to the idea that writing this book would enable my story to be shared with many other undocumented immigrants who might have gone through what i was going through. Youve mentioned princeton. Lets walk people through the 30second version of where youve been. You arrived here in new york at what age . 4. With mom . With my mom, who was pregnant, and with my dad. Okay. Dad was not with you long, correct . My parents were together for the first few years of our time in the states, and then he returned to the Dominican Republic. When you arrived, you and mom were living where . We arrived and spent some time in astoria. Then we lived in washington heights. We lived in the bronx. We lived in queens. We jumped all over the place. But you were in a homeless shelter i mean, i guess yes. We spent a year in two homeless shelters after my dad left. We were evicted from our apartment in queens, and we entered the shelter system. How is undocumented danel getting his education at this point in his life . I was getting my education from the Public School system. I had been going to schools wherever we happened to be at the time went to a Public School in the bronx, several in queens, one in chinatown. At some point and tell me how you got there you ended up at collegiate, a very prestigious and elite private school here in manhattan. I think its the oldest in the country. How did that happen . At the second shelter, i met a volunteer who was a photographer by training, and he took me under his wing, and he told my mom that it was imperative that he and she Work Together to get me the best education they could. And you got into on a scholarship to collegiate for grades 7 through 12 . Thats right. You want to share with me about that experience during your time at collegiate . Was it difficult . Was it challenging . What were some of the obstacles you had to overcome . It was disorienting at first because my classmates were, for the most part, much better off than i was, and so getting adjusted to that, figuring out what my place was among my classmates was the hardest challenge, but academically, i loved it. I had nothing quite like it in my life. Youd never change that looking back, right . I absolutely would not. Its safe to say that a seed in you was planted there . Yes. A seed for education, for learning, for what . A seed for education, a seed for the study of literature. I had several fantastic teachers there who taught me the importance of reading and of reading deeply, and i also had a phenomenal latin and greek teacher at collegiate who inspired in me a love of classics. And thats continued, has it not . Because after collegiate, you were off to where . I went off to princeton where i got my b. A. In classics, and then after that, i went to oxford where i got a masters in classics. Oh, my. And then stanford where i got a phd in classics. Danel, do you look back and scratch your head . I mean, you spit it out as if it could happen to anyone, but its happened to you, and those are three of the finest institutions on gods green earth, and you were there to take part in them and to soak up. Do you pinch yourself sometimes and say, man, is this really my life . Oh, i have dreams where i wake up back in the shelter system, so im very conscious of the fact that i was a beneficiary of tremendous good luck. Obviously it helped that i was able to push through the doors that were opened for me, but in the end, so much of it was just being at the right place in the right time with the right mentors who were able to support me. How much did your undocumented status get in the way or hamper the goals that you were trying to achieve . It certainly, at several stages in my life, posed serious complications. The first was in high school when i realized that i wanted to apply to princeton. I wasnt sure if princeton would accept me, and i wasnt sure if i would get any financial aid, because being undocumented, i wasnt eligible for federal financial aid, and the obstacles continued to present themselves while i was in college. So the name of the book is undocumented. Is that still your status as we sit here today . It is no longer my status. Im in a bit of a complicated status at the moment. I did my phd at stanford under a student visa, and i now have a Work Authorization stemming from that student visa. And Something Else pretty big has happened in your life. Yes. In march i got married to my longtime girlfriend. Congratulations. So, things are going well. Things are going very well. And youre teaching right now at columbia. Thats right. All right. Were gonna take a break. When we come back, i want to ask you about the book how long it took you to put it together, what to include perhaps what not to include in the book. [ laughs ] sit tight. The inspiring story of danel Padilla Peralta. More stories, more insight when we come right back on tiempo. Join the millions who have already switched. We switched. And now, were streaming netflix. Who knew Time Warner Cables internet was so fast mom switched. And now, we can watch our favorite shows together, on demand. I switched. 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Ive got my copy right here. What do you hope readers of your book will take away . I hope for two things. The first is to be inspired by the power of education. My life was made possible because of education, because of the humanities, in particular. The second thing i want them to take away, especially in these times when immigration is really at the top of the political dialogue, is that there are so many contributions undocumented immigrants make to American Society at the local, regional, and at the national level, and to dismiss those contributions makes no sense. Yes. Youre the example, are you not, of one potential huge contribution as you educate other students now at columbia. Lets run with that. Theres one or two particular candidates mr. Donald trump in particular who made his immigration policy crystalclear. Would the opportunities that were made available to you or that you made available to yourself have been possible had someone like mr. Trumps immigration plans been in place . Those opportunities would not have been possible, and whats so peculiar about this current debate that were having thats been engineered by trump is that had i been born, say, 5 or 10 years before i was actually born, and we had arrived at the states, we would have benefited from reagans plan, which provided what republicans now are loathe to accept as an amnesty. So this tells you something about how much the Political Climate has changed. I wouldnt have had those opportunities, and yet there were republicans in the 80s and early 90s who supported those opportunities. Danel, i dont want to oversimplify it. Certainly its a story of inspiration, certainly a story of determination. Can everyone do what youve done . Do you need a particular mindset . Do you need a particular drive . Do you need a particular dna and wiring to do and accomplish what youve been able to