ABSTRACT
The author explores how autoethnography led to an interrogation of her values, beliefs, and lifestyle as a member of the dominant society in relation to the people with whom she has interacted through teaching and conducting research in Spanish-speaking communities. She shares examples from her work of ways she created unintentional hierarchy while learning to work cross-culturally. She interrogates the questions of ethics that have arisen in working across languages and cultures, always overshadowed by issues of hierarchy. Through autoethnography she has learned to examine her words and actions and to transform her way of thinking and behaving as she moves within and between cultures.
