When did you first get involved with the immigrant rights movement? I’m a DACA recipient, my friend was also a DACA recipient, so when we heard that Trump rescinded DACA, we were really scared of what was next. We heard that there was going to be a walk out, and...
How will this scholarship impact your life? My ultimate goal is to work in health administration to be able to implement new policies or new programs to make healthcare more available to underrepresented populations. I got my bachelor’s in health advocacy, and...
“Being undocumented and experiencing the struggle for receiving some type of benefit or relief, which is what DACA has meant to me –– being able to benefit from the rewards of that advocacy that people before me participated in –– makes me want to do the same...
When did you first become involved with CIRC? “I’ve been a volunteer for the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition on and off since 2012, mainly just showing up to rallies and supporting in any way I could, but then in 2017 DACA was threatened, and I’m a DACA...
“I’d say I’ve always been pretty involved with my community and so I don’t think necessarily my relationship with my community has changed. I would say now that it’s my full time job, it’s just kind of amplified. I wanted to get really...
