"I grew up poor with a very distinctive working-class accent. In England in the 1980s and 1990s this would have impeded my professional advancement. This background has never set me back in America."
- Fiona HillFiona Hill, a specialist in Eurasian and Russian studies, was raised in an era when socioeconomic status and accent were the main barriers to social mobility. She was born into a working-class family in England in the 1980s and early 1990s, and she saw firsthand how a unique regional dialect could m…