June 1, 2009 | Roger Wakimoto is a Japanese-American whose grandparents and parents were all born in the United States. Yet the EOL director, who moved from his native California to Boulder in 2004, finds that people sometimes assume he’s new to this country. “I’ve often been complimented on how well I speak English,” Roger says. “When I tell them I’ve been speaking English since I was two or three, they often look at me as if I’m pulling their leg.”
