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...
“If I had to put it in one word, I’d say immigrant rights means family. My family, other families, and family as a whole in terms of the coalition and as a nation. I was always an immigrant, but I wouldn’t say I got involved until the 2016 election when I canvassed...
“I think I am an accidental activist in a way, coming to the US as a refugee and immigrant, growing up Muslim, being a black woman, I feel like I had to advocate for myself in a way; the system wasn’t really made for me. When I was 13, 14, 15, my aunts would...
