I captured these Turkish-American students at the second annual Kent International Festival, held on the first weekend of summer (2013).

Benson Pizza offers many varieties of pizza I have not tasted, but they do look quite tasty (2012).

Kent’s hilltop has a lot of culinary diversity, including an Indian-American pizza restaurant (2012).

Kent is one of several mid-sized cities in King County. It’s entirely dependent on the automobile, and it is where many cheaper apartments are found, attracting many lower-income residents and immigrants. Today, more than 130 languages—from Afrikaans to Yoruba—are spoken in the Kent School District, the fourth largest in Washington State. Kent has become a prototypical “melting pot suburb.” (Nationally, minorities now represent 35% of all U.S. suburban residents.) And many new suburbanites come from abroad. Today, one in five King County residents identify as “foreign born,” and many are choosing to locate in South King County communities like Kent. Here are a few  samplers of how diverse Kent is.