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Jordan D. Brown

As head of a Baltimore based immigration organization, Krishanti O’Mara Vignarajah sees herself in her clients

BALTIMORE -- At 9 months old, most babies are just learning how to stand and crawl on their own. Krishanti “Krish” O’Mara Vignarajah was learning how to navigate life in a new country.

Her parents, Elyathamby and Anandasothy Vignarajah, left Sri Lanka at the brink of a civil war in the early 1980s, with their infant daughter and 3-year-old son.

The Vignarajah family moved to Catonsville with no jobs and just $200 to their names.

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