Starting with a Guggenheim Fellowship and a grant from the Creative Work Fund in 2013, we spent six years documenting local efforts to fight poverty, high crime, low education, and hopeless in one of the least literate places in the United States - Stockton and San Joaquin County, CA. Our project On Reading in the San Joaquin also focused on some of the surprising efforts to overcome these harsh realities by using libraries and education to become an engine of hope. This grid shows the face of immigration in America today in one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse cities in the county.