One of nation’s top children’s doctors didn’t want to move to the US — but is now happy her parents pursued the American dream

Source: New York Post

Through July 4, The Post, in conjunction with the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream, is featuring US citizens explaining what the American dream means to them in 2026 — including Joelle Simpson, the Chief of Emergency Medicine at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. I immigrated here from Trinidad in about 1991. There were four of us — my mom, my dad, and my younger brother — that moved here with a couple of suitcases.