Rush brings more than twenty-five years of experience crafting narratives for marginalized communities worldwide. Her work has focused on restoring context, dignity, and voice to lives often reduced to footnotes or stereotypes. She is also the daughter of immigrants who made their own harrowing journeys to America aboard ocean liners like Titanic in the early twentieth century. This book is written in recognition that migration, labor, and loss were not abstractions-they were lived realities carried across the Atlantic by ordinary people whose hopes were larger than the ships that carried them.