Maria recounts the first months of her immigration to the U.S., her struggles to make a decent living, raise a son, and steer clear of ICE. Maria is the Executive Director of the Day Worker Center of Mountain View. She was one of 8 featured storytellers at the Media Center salon called “Foreign Correspondents: Immigrant Odysseys.” Read More »
In this season of my life, I am a freshmen undergraduate student at a university in California. Like the typical undergraduate, I live in a dorm room and often stay up ungodly hours of the night typing away term papers like the rest of them. At my university, I am just your average nineteen-year-old, freshmen girl fulfilling her educational requirements. ... Read More »