Being a native English speaker is a massive asset. Not having an accent (or, more precisely, having the universal American accent) is very helpful. I have met dozens of different English accents that are mutually unintelligible (that is, native Spanish speakers and native Khmer speakers have a hard time understanding one another even if both are relatively fluent in English), but I can understand most of them with only a little difficulty.
Knowing only one language, I can act as a translator between groups that don't understand each other.
In other news, my name (or something that sounds like it) means "30" in Khmer. Also, it means "three of a kind" in the context of a card game.
Being a computer scientist is also a massive asset. Every organization in the world needs one. Or several. Or many. Even the nonprofit that I volunteered with to build houses. The person who organized the trip handed me an 8GB jump drive at the end of the trip because her husband was trying to recruit me to his company.
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