Sashai Alvarez Jasper is a proud Chicagoan. Sashai is a descendant of a Puerto-Rican father and a Honduran mother. Sashai speaks Spanish and English fluently and grew up in Humboldt Park. Sashai currently resides in South Shore and is 100 percent certain she is the only Puerto-Rican/Honduran American that lives and has ever lived in South Shore☺. Sashai attended Richard Yates Elementary, Whitney M. Young High School, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (undergrad), and Pace University in New York City (master’s in the science of teaching).