Archive for Advocacy
Not A Motivational Speaker
People see my posts… you travel and speak? Is that your headshot? Are you a motivational speaker? WHOA NOW. No. NO. JUST NO. Well I guess, maybe, kinda… NO NO. I hate the term motivational speaker. For many reasons, but one is that I think I actually made a name for myself telling people what […]
New Program: Berkeley’s Burning
I just returned from the AFLV Central conference in Indy (conference recap coming soon). I was inspired by so many students asking me about the advocacy that I do through La Casa de Amistad that I had to write a new program. Still fine tuning it, but I stayed up all night and wrote the […]
Faith. Action. Results.
Yesterday I spoke to a group of women at Saint Mary’s College here in South Bend. I haven’t been on the road speaking much lately, I have been focused on my immigration advocacy work locally. Speaking at rallies and events about empowerment, engagement and becoming advocates for those who most need our help. I wrote […]
