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\\nYou may have heard\\xa0Aarti Shahani\\u2019s voice on the radio when she was\\xa0NPR\\u2019s Silicon Valley reporter. The techies she interviewed often assumed she came from a family of engineers or scientists. Nothing could be further from the truth, Aarti says.

Her parents brought her to the U.S. when she was a child. They overstayed their tourist visas, moved the family into a roach-infested apartment, and subsisted on welfare while looking for work. Eventually, they all got\\xa0green cards\\xa0and Aarti thrived as a American teenager\\u2026until the day her father was arrested at his electronics store in Manhattan for a crime he didn\\u2019t know he\\u2019d committed.
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\\nNow Aarti is reporting her own story: why her parents migrated, what it took for the family to survive in the U.S. economy, and how their saga reflects the state of the \\u201cAmerican Dream\\u201d right now.
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\\nPlus, listeners share what\\u2019s happened to their careers, businesses, and mental health since the pandemic began.

This is the final episode of\\xa0Season 5\\xa0which explains six systemic problems and profiles six amazing people working to fix them.

You can get updates and stay in touch with Manoush on Twitter\\xa0@ManoushZ\\xa0or @ZigZagPod on\\xa0Twitter\\xa0and\\xa0Instagram. Or just\\xa0sign up for the newsletter.