“I think that the discrimination might end but the day-to-day persecution won’t,” she said.
But Soprani said despite her expectation of poor treatment, she needs the job to pay her bills.
“I need the job,” she said. “It’s the only solution.”
Soprani said that if she doesn’t get reinstated, she hopes to win money through a court action and move to another state to seek work. But, more than anything, she said wants the dispute to end.
“I hope that this is over,” Soprani said.
—Staff writer Stephen M. Marks can be reached at marks@fas.harvard.edu.