[inaudible] i was wondering. [inaudible] the people who are my true friends are supportive and a lot of my friends from clueless are still supportive of me but there are a lot of people who are no longer my friends. They just stop talking to me. Family members as well. But thats okay because i believe if god wants you to do something he opens up the doors and all you have to do is walk through them and thats what im doing. [inaudible] i just wondered what you would say to people who are supporting hillary clinton. How do you can bet this clinton machine . What do you say to young women in this room. [inaudible] because she is now the nominee. Not shifting, how do you present the future to young women. I say to women, i have a new brand and its called america one of my platforms is called 21st century feminism and that is being a lady, just like every single one of you in here, being a woman, dressing like a woman, behaving like a lady, using all the tools god gave you and dont let anyone shame you. You dont have to dress like a man would dress which is how she dresses. You dont have to dress like that. You dont have to be like her. Please dont be like her. My name is danielle and i made talk a lot about feeling beautiful and worthy and im sure everybody all in this room has felt not beautiful or not worthy. You talk about the importance of your faith. His them particular verse that you refer to . I wish, its 139, wheres my sister . Yes, that one. Thats the one. Thats the 11 that i look to. Is that the one that he said i know you by every grain of sand, ive counted the hairs on your head and your mothers womb . Yes, that one. Thats the 1i go i go to. Thank you. Thank you for your help. Hi stacy, my name is danielle as well and i know you talked about mentioning your faith when you are down and how that impacted you. I was wondering if that had any effect on your conversion to conservatism them and your desire. [inaudible] yes, absolutely. I feel like a country is flowing into the wrong hands, if you note i mean mean. Its becoming darker and darker. I dont want that. I do not want that dark evil presence to take over our world and i want to fight to make that happen. Im willing to give my life to that. Thats what i want to do. Hi stacy, my name is carly. Im from atlanta georgia. It happens to be an all girl school, my professors, the students and i 100 hundred stick out as a conservative. We talk about things in class and i get shut down a lot. I hold my tongue and it gets to the point where i dont want to talk about what i believe in. Do not get to that point. To not let them do that to you. Do not let anyone scare you into submission. No. If anything, let it feature fire, let it make you study harder. I want you to look up a video with Cambridge University in 1964. Its an amazing debate and every single one of you should watch it. Its amazing. Yes, stand up. Do not give in. God is with you. [inaudible] [inaudible] especially now with the election going on, the thing i really want to do is try to educate people who are disenfranchised, dont get to have the education that we might have now or know we have now, going talk to people and places you might not want to talk to people and share what you know. Share whats good and weve got to break that narrative that the democrats have been feeding to the country, that plantation mentality that they been feeding to everyone that this is as far as you get to go and you cant do everything, you cant achieve everything you want. Theres not enough to go around. Then you know what theyre doing, theyre putting a limit on our god. And does god have limits . No, he does not. And neither do you. I go to the university of south carolina. I was wondering your opinion as a conservative woman with our Presumptive Republican nominee being donald trump, he has been in the media a lot for saying some inappropriate things about women, sexual and racist comments, do you feel those are accurate . No, i dont feel theyre accurate at all. They can never tell me anything specific other than something, i remember the thing with megan kelly but it seemed like it was some little argument that they had a little rift between them. Thats what it seemed like to me, something personal. What i would say is look at his children, look at his daughter, his wife, his wives, look at them. They seem very happy and respected and loved and thats what i look at. That tells me a lot about a man. What does his family look like . My name is anna and i go to liberty university. I was just wondering, you seem very strong in your faith and its very easy to talk to people about your faith at school but coming into the political world and coming out of school and into society, how do you share your faith without making it seemed like youre shoving it down peoples throat . I just give my own personal experience. I just say it from my own heart, what god has done for me and i thank god for myself. I never say you have to do this, i make suggestions like i just did, i suggest you try this but if you dont want to you dont have to, thats your choice but im going to be on the jesus train, as my uncle said. May be the last two questions of us is more, one, what is your issue that you care the most about, the policy issue and to please tell us about making that movie. My policy issue i care most about is defeating isis. I care the most about defeating isis because until we do that i dont, i wont feel like weve achieved the greatness of the country that we can and we have to prove to the world that we care about everybody that were not just the selfish americans who sit on our high horse and think were better than everybody else. Thats not who we are. We love people, we care about people and we are the strongest country in the world so its our responsibility to take care of those who cant take care of themselves. Thats my biggest issue. In the movie. That was just a joy. Every single day was fantastic, as as much fun as you see is as much fun as we had every day on the set. We joked, we laughed, we never had an argument or fight and on a film, thats very rare. But we all jelled, we all fit together and be like a heart. It was like a heartbeat. That was because of amy and her genius and casting. In the casting process we had to read with each other before she chose us. She made us read with each person to see how your chemistry was with that person and we all just had this amazing chemistry and i believe it was a movie that was blessed and im so proud to have been a part of it. It was so much fun. I miss britney. That was a sad thing. Thats the thing about hollywood, if any of you want to be actresses, how many, many of you want to be actresses . Oh good, thats thats fantastic, i dont have to tell a story them. Its not as good as it seems. My acting coach told me it has to be your only option. It has to be the only thing you could ever see yourself doing in order for you to withstand what you go through before you make it. Theres a lot of rejection. [applause] this is a little over an hour. Diane has appeared in the highly rated tv series orange is the new black and jane the virgin. Her new book, in the country we love, my family divided is a compelling and unnerving memoir which is received praise from the literary community. Diane volunteers with the nonprofit immigrant Legal Resource Center and with an organization that promotes civil involvement. She has also been named an ambassador for citizenship and naturalization by the white house. Tonight she is joined by the Baltimore Sun awardwinning education reporter liz and we thank you very much for being here and moderating this conversation with diane. Please welcome diane and liz to the Pratt Library. [applause] hello, good evening. Can you all hear us . Oh, this does work. Well, i just wanted to start the conversation off by having diane tell you, youve probably know of her as an actress but maybe you dont know her back story. So i wanted to ask her just to give us the briefest of introductions about her story, just to sort of, the structure of it and who she is. Thank you. Thank you judy and thank you Pratt Library and for all of you for being here today. I feel so honored that you came out to hear me speak. I will try my best. My name is diane guerrero. My parents are colombian immigrants. I was born and you new jersey but i was raised in boston. My parents came here with the visa in hopes, the story, sometimes they say we were just going to see, check out the states, my mother had hoped of staying at making a family here and making her dreams come true and eventually their visa expired and they wanted to try to figure out a way to become citizens. That was their journey and their quest. They were undocumented for as long as i can remember and my childhood was shaped by that fact. My parents were very honest with me as a young girl, i knew what their status was and i knew very clearly what my status was. I was was an american citizen and they werent. I had something they wanted very desperately and they made it very clear that they needed that so we could Stay Together. So i remember every prayer, every wish was that my parents got these papers that they needed so we could Stay Together we managed to live our lives but it was scary and i know that anybody who has been through this experience knows how intense it is and how interesting your life can become when youre living in the shadows. So, i grew up with this dream but i also had another dream and that was to maybe one day become an entertainer or a performer, an artist and so my parents were deported because of their lack of documents and i decided to stay and pursue my dream which was to stay here and finish my education and try to live out my own dream. I no, its its corny but i always put that in there. Yesterday i was making video for this event and i put that in there, in the country we love and i winked because i felt embarrassed and my friend was like on that. It is the country you love so just owning. So now im not winking and im just saying so we can stand the country we love and pursue my dreams and for my own life. Then, so here we are. I think 14 or 15 years past and i wasnt dealing with the huge cloud over my life which was this whole issue of immigration and i started seeing the topic, but a lot in the news and peoples date of the day conversation the word immigration would come up in my ears would start ringing and i would want to talk about it but i couldnt because i felt all sorts of stuff. I had a lot of issues because my parents were deported and i didnt want to really deal with that but then i saw there was a need to use my voice in this way and so it started, little by little, i wrote an oped just feeling the waters out. I didnt think anybody would read the oped. I was like im going to do this but no ones going to read it so its an oped. Its sort of how i lived my life by trying things out and telling myself that no ones ever going to see it, nothings ever going to come of it but im just going to try it. So i tried and people did read it and it did get some sort of attention and then i realized it was such an important issue that i had to talk about, i had to talk about it because i had been through this experience and i knew millions of people were going through the same thing in our country needed voices like mine, people who had been through it firsthand and could share a human story and be part of the conversation. Then, lots of stuff happens and i wrote this book. Now im here. If thats too long . No, thats great. I think one of the really interesting things about the book is, and ive worked a lot on stories about immigration in the last year. Take one of the really interesting things is that we hear so much about the journeys to america from people all over the world but we dont always hear what happens once theyre here. We dont always hear the voice of the childs whose parents are deported or how is it if youre an iraqi girl and you arrive in baltimore, what happens after you get here . So i think those voices are really important to be heard. I wanted to ask diane to read a crucial moment in her book when, i just set this up a little, once her parents were taken out of the house, they were detained for a while in prison. She could go and visit them. She went to say goodbye to her mom and ill let you start from there. This is in the prison. Okay, excuse me if i flubbed or anything, have some learning disabilities. Its not funny, but its true. Here we go, im not the best professional. I want to be an actor. Just always challenging myself. Okay, here goes. You ready amelia asked . I stood and pivoted so i could avoid mommys face. As much as i had longed to see her, i also didnt want to remember her like this. Not with her wrist chained up, not in an orange jumpsuit, the person behind the barrier wasnt my mother. She was a stranger to me. With hardly a sound, the group shuffled back down the corridor. Amelia held my hand while we walked. This isnt the end for you diane she said as she tried to reassure me but it felt like the end. As devastated as i was for my mom, i was even more scared for myself. She and my dad were going home to family. I was stepping into the future i prayed would never come. Outside amelia. Out over the lot trying to recall where she had parked her camry. A few hundred feet away from us near the prison side interest, a white police fan pulled up. Amelia and i exchanged a look. Seconds later two guards herded some inmates out to the curb. My mother was among them. Just as my mother was stepping into the paddy wagon she turned around and caught a glimpse of me. She froze. I could tell she wanted to Say Something, to run to me but before she could make a move a guard rushed her into the van lets go he snapped the engine rumbled on. From her seat in the rear she twisted herself around so she could see me through the bars on the windows. She was trying to tell me something but i couldnt figure out what it was. Then all at once i understood. I love you she was mouthing. I love you, i love you i love you. She repeated the three words until the van turned from the lot and disappeared. I smiled. That was the only thing i could be sure of, that my mother loved me. Anyone who tried to come between us. That was my teenage years. No friends gathered to grieve over the departed, no flowers were sent or Memorial Service planned and yet the two people i cherish the most were gone. Not from the world itself but gone from me. Wed find a way to move forward, to carry on, just not with the promise of one anothers presence. Thank you. If there are any children in the audience i apologize for the after word. One of the things i think is not well understood outside of the latino and immigrant community is the extent of the division that the immigration experience has on families. In my work as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun i spent six or eight months at Patterson High School in east baltimore and wrote a series about that. There they were profiling students and again and again during that experience, i heard particularly the boys, the undocumented boys who had made it across the border, they told stories about their mothers or fathers disappearing from them, usually their parents didnt tell them they were going to leave honduras or el salvador, they laughed sometimes in the middle of the night or while they were at school and couldnt actually bear to say goodbye to their children so they just left. In one case, one of the boys said he came home from school and realized his mother was gone and everyone was crying and she couldnt figure it out. In another case the boy told me that he knew, he was told his mother was going to take a bus to another town but he knew something was terribly wrong and he ran with all his might to see her before she got on the bus and he did just barely glimpse are leaving and she was crying and he didnt see here for eight years. That happens so often i think. When the kids are reunited, you would think, oh my gosh, this is the most wonderful thing in the world to be reunited with my mom but in fact its terribly difficult because you dont really know them. They are really strangers to you this is such a problem in the latino immigrant community that they have now, the the teachers have started developing curriculum that helps parents and their children whom they been apart from for a long time reunite because until you reunite you cant move on in many ways in your new country. I think diane story is a little bit different but its a twist on that same theme of having years and years apart and not being able to communicate in a real way and having to sort of separate and i think diane, i would ask you to tell a little bit about that separation for you and what it did for you and how you came back around. Its very difficult, when i went through that, that separation from your folks because, my family unit had died that day and for you, its like a death but no one treats it as bad because theyre alive. Obviously your parent parents are alive but your family unit has died. You either move on where you go back. I chose to move on and stay here and continue my life in the states. I figured out, all i knew was that i needed my education and thats what my parents taught me that you need your education and if you work really hard then you will make something out of yourself. That is what i believed as a kid growing up in the states, this this is where i could do that. I knew that i could do this here and i could be resourceful and if i was savvy enough and determined enough that something could happen, but i could make something happen. Guess what i didnt realize at that age was what the relationship was going to be with my folks. For some reason i thought well figure that out too, but what i didnt didnt realize is the huge strain that it have on us and it have had on our emotional life and our psychological impact. I wanted to talk about that in the book, just the strained relationship and the effects that it has on a family to separated like that. No one talks about the psychological and emotional damage because no one sees this, really when you hear it on the news and you hear politicians talk about it you never hear it as a human issue, its all political. But its important to realize that these are real people and real families and there are real effects and i was lucky enough to sort of come back from that but i was in a very deep hole for a very long time. I didnt. Guest my parents or didnt see them for maybe eight years because it was too much. I didnt know how to handle it. I would go back to columbia and visit them and i didnt know what to do because i was growing and they were growing and i figured, there my parents, though stay the same but they grow too, they change. Your mother absolutely just didnt give up, she kept calling and calling and calling and like a teenager would, you just said no, i wont deal with you. There was a point where i didnt really know how to handle it so i had to separate myself and i feel like sometimes, in a way it gave me legs to continue. I did the best that i could. I didnt know, i didnt really know how to be an adult and handle things correctly so i just did the best that i could and sometimes shutting down was the only way that i could move forward. I think the way, it took me just until a few years ago, my family relationship, relationship, still, i have to work at it every day. My mother was mad at me yesterday for something, for me not being responsive enough or not showing her the kind of emotion that she wanted from me. Its works, every day. I think its the only thing, being a part but its relationships that were so strained that i wish i could get back, but you have to do the best you can. Were talking about technology and how thats been a huge part in us reconnecting and obviously my work with Immigration Reform helps my mind and my heart heal so that i could accept my life and our relationship the way it is and just love them for the way it is and continue that way. You just have to adjust to whatever life has given you and make the out of that. Thats what ive tried to do with this work so i sort of have done this, obviously so i could help others and share with others but also so i could help me and my family because we needed something, in my fashion i go bigger i go home. I have to do this so i can try to salvage the relationship with my parents. I needed to open my heart to this work. Actually, you also needed to repair this relationship, it seems, but until you could go on with your life in a really productive way. Oh yes,. It was a big deal when you went to see your mom and repair that relationship after so long. Its repairing every day. Like i said she was really mad at me the other day. I would like you to talk a little bit about becoming an actress and if you thought that the grit and perseverance that you needed to get through the years without your parents had then helped you become an actress, that you were willing to stick it out through a lot of auditions that didnt work out or long times between work. This kind of work is very up and down. Every day i get a call and im trying to figure out my life and what my next move is because its gig by gig. Its not a sure thing. I knew that. The reason i didnt want to take the chance of the beginning, what i was scared of was because i didnt have that foundation or that base that i know that you need to pursue anything. You need that support from your family members but yeah, i think youre right, i decided to pursue what i really wanted to do. I have to say f it. Ive already been through so much. What, people are going to say no to me . Whatever. Say no to me. Ive ever already been through much and lost my parents and lost the one thing that meant so much to me. It totally just prepared me for the amount of rejection that i got and i just grew up. I think everything i went through in high school and after, going to college was a huge miracle for me. I dont even know how it happened. Doing that and then doing the things i got to do and having the support in my community, i dont know how it happened but i know i was in need and i needed to be resourceful. I need to be respectful and i mean by that, keep my place and be grateful to those helping me on this journey and i think we all need to be resourceful and respectful and whats the other . What . Boom girl, thats the other one that i do all the time recently resilient. It really has served me well. So from the time that your parents left to fairly recently, the fact that your parents were undocumented and had been deported, you kept complete secret even from people you are pretty close to in your life. I wondered what the transition was like, sort of suddenly bearing all of this . For a long time i feel like my immediate friends knew, the kids kids i grew up with new, some of them knew what happened to me. Sometimes i felt like it held me back. Im a very happy person in a very outgoing person so i felt like if i ever told the story people would look at me differently. I was ashamed. In this culture youre taught from the images that you see on tv and its true of the rhetoric that you hear from people, if youre an immigrant youre a bad person. If youre youre deported then you are a failure. I was ashamed and i didnt want to share that and i didnt want people to look at me differently. Then once things started escalating in the topic started coming up more, i feel now, more than ever which is why i was compelled to talk about it, but it was like an explosion. I would hear somebody talk about it and i would want to Say Something or i would Say Something really bold and people would be like, where did that come from, and id be like no, no nothing. And theyd be like i didnt know you were so passionate about that. Id be like immigration, nation of immigrants, yeah, no big deal. When i basically share that with people in the way that i did, i felt the response was very, it was cool, it was open and people were accepting and i learned that day that there is no shame in your story and no shame in where you come from and who you are and you need to use that. If you find yourself in a place where youre unhappy with the Current System or something is not right, you wake wake up and youre not into that are not into the race thats happening right now, there should be a path for for citizenship. I dont really understand the immigration system. I think its a little foggy. I feel the majority of people dont understand it and then you decide to be a part of a solution or find a solution so i felt it was just worth it to share my story at that point. There are a lot of things going on in immigration right now and one of the things that we discussed earlier was that social media has really changed immigration in this country. If you think to 100 years ago, people came over to the United States and they got off the vote and that was it. They didnt talk to their family except through letters and those letters took a long time getting here and back. Today, the new immigrants that i speak with, the refugees are still so connected through facebook and twitter and texting and its really free to be in touch with your friends. And they never, in a way its a wonderful comfort for them to be able to talk to their relatives, and talk to a syrian family who the mother is left behind in turkey with the rest of the family here and they skype in at dinner every night which is comforting but its not the same. The iraqi girl who left her fiance back in baghdad and for the first year and a half she was here she was constantly Facebook Messaging him dozens of time every day. She has finally broken off with him but that sense that i cant really go on with my life here, its a wonderful thing to have to be in touch with your parents so quickly but it also can be a detriment and you are talking about how you always feel that people feel you should drop everything when they call. Away some of our cultural culture is is that our family is everything our parents is everything. You have this responsibility, especially if you have this opportunity, this great opportunity to be here in the United States to sort of provide or to be attentive and to be there. I wish that bug bit me because i dont want to talk to anybody. Man, that wouldve been funny. If i skype with my mom during dinner every night she would love it. Unfortunately im way too american for that. Im gonna watch tv. There has to be a balance, right i still feel that responsibility. I wake up screaming sometimes. I have so much my mind and i want to do so much and do so much for my family, but there just has to be a moment where you balance and you say okay, i have to lived for me and do what i have to do and take care of myself in order to help others. I did that along my journey in other ways. I didnt have a balance i just just had to shut people out. Im not going to let anyone stop me including my family, but that didnt make me happy, and made me incredibly depressed. We just have to find a balance. Another thing i would say about technology is how easy it is to share information like whats going on in the world or what kind of movement we want or what kind of, what is troubling our society and we can share information so much faster. Thats a good thing i think, especially for the Latino Community living now is getting most of their information or their news online. Theres a lot more people who have an opinion and theyre just using their voices. In that sense i think its really good. We can come full circle now and maybe just talk a little bit about where you see Immigration Reform going and what your hope is for the future. Theres some vast difference of opinion among the president ial candidates. Maybe you can just talk about how you think we could get through the. Sure. I think obviously having this conversation right now is a step forward. I think we need to have, first and foremost, in my opinion, we need Immigration Reform along with a lot of the groups and organizations that im working with. We need Immigration Reform. Immigration Reform is going i dont see it happening. I wish it could happen sometimes. I wish deportation would stop and that we could have a friendlier conversation about immigrants and what they mean to this country. I hope that we can change the culture with which we talk about immigration and a documented people. And see all the contributions that the immigrant communities make. I feel there needs to be a clear path to citizenship and people here already deserve to contribute to the country legally. I dont think any emigrant or documented family that ive ever talked to is here saying i dont want any documents to become a citizen. I feel like everyone who i talked to and i know it firsthand because i know how much my parents love the country and how hard they fought to find the path to become citizens and documented. Theres less talthis lets talk n the division and kicking out and building walls and again im not advocating for people to come over and i think that its silly to think everyone in the world wants to be here because thats not true. I just think that needs to be a the plan for the people here. I think we could have some questions now if people want to ask. There is a microphone. So, my question is about your experience now its laid out a lot to say for womens television in some ways. We know about them being undocumented citizens. I wonder if you have any input on that and on the women who might be facing similar situations. Thank you so much. I am so proud to be on both shows that are so social and comment on whats happening socially. Thats why we come to love them so much because they share whats happening in the world of sharing stories that we havent really heard. Part of what i said when i set about changing the culture i feel Like Television shows and entertainment and responsibility to bring forth the issues so that we can talk about them and it was such a huge deal when jane the virgin had that story line and then type of Immigration Reform. It was a quick mention and i think you see the power of that responsibility and the Entertainment System industry in the Entertainment Industry to choose a platform to raise these issues so we can talk about them and get involved and know the power of the voices and actions and participation. To take a look at shows like orange is the new black. Certainly being part of the show made me feel like i had a voice, too and how i should use it and it being around so many women who care about so many things and doing something about it. Working with an organization and lending your time were trying to motivate others to fight for something that they believe and i think its really cool i finished watching the third season of orange is the new black, looking forward to the next season. I just purchased your book and i cant wait to read it. I want to go back to a personal story [inaudible] are there any systems in place or are you aware of any that you may have chosen not to access . I talk about this all the time. I waited to see if someone would come or get a call. I didnt want to go. I was afraid. I didnt contact anybody to say im here by myself. We made the decision to stay with friends. So i didnt know of any program or organization that could help me and i think thats part of getting involved like this is to reach those that are going through the same thing, to sort of motivated them to say there are organizations out there and websites and literature that you can read and educate your self. I talk about how its one of those things that we were so scared into voting in such fear that we didnt go out and educate ourselves on what our options were and what our rights were and how we could seek for help. There are places and organizations we can go that are willing to help and educate you and you should definitely take advantage of it so you are not staying at home and fear. You are trying to help your situation and family. One of the books in that moment is the fact that i c. E. Came in and took her parents had never been followed up and decided there is a child living in this house so whats going to happen to that child . If you think about a family that isnt as resourceful to make sure theres somebody there even from prison but the idea that the federal government might basically take an 8yearolds parents then not follow through to make sure they have a foster care. Those that i work with and call my family and friends speak to i work for a comprehensive center and i want to thank you because we rely a lot on the rights given in december than the deportation priority is particularly immigration law. I was curious have you tried going through the process of petitioning for your parents to come back or are they interested in coming back if you were in the process of doing that, how much of a headache has it been and can you speak a little bit more i know in the book you mentioned what a headache that process is for all the people that say get in line, do it correctly and how long it takes because i dont think that a lot of people are that aware of how much it is. We are so close. I have to say that they want to come back and i want them back and right now i am going through that process and it is very difficult with the amount of paperwork that goes into it and its difficult and yes we want to be able to visit. Even that is pretty difficult. I dont think that i will ever stop trying to. Every day i want to go to the Grocery Store but its not the same. Its very difficult to process and thing god for the immigration and Legal Resource Center they have been so helpful in organizations like that like yours provide all the information i need to so that i dont do any mistakes or missteps because anyone will tell you that has been through this process any mistake you will have to start from the beginning and whatever that beginning is there are so many roadblocks like i said there is no clear path to im a teacher here in the city i teach at the Baltimore City college and im also an advisor for the Student Organization for organizing and multicultural society. So, what i wanted to hear about is how could the School System hasystemhave better supported yd what should they be doing if the students are being affected what is the role you see and how can we be there . When i was growing up i had no short of education when it came to the immigration system and so just learning about it and having it be part of the curriculum i think would be very helpful. What did they do . The reunification curriculum i think are so helpful. I think having an open conversation about it into teaching your students and also like i said when changing the language and the culture and knowing that no one person is illegal and that we need to change the type of language and also know that immigrants and people here that are undocumented makeup what america is and what the country is. In stories like mine that many people share, being open about stories like this and knowing that that is a part of our american story. I think that wa way we will stat having better conversations and make more solutions involving people so they can be more aesthetically engaged in the importance of voting and participating in a community is so that there are elected officials were going to meet our needs. I dont just say that as a Latino Community from everywhere from iraq and all of us but also american citizens because it is important for the entire country for this issue to be addressed. Its important for the entire country. I think its interesting what ive seen as an education reporter that more and more at Patterson High School for the last four have been immigrants and if you look at the top of the class in many high schools across the state they are immigrants. Thank you. My question is i want to know what advice would you give to young latino activists like myself . One thing i have to remind myself every day is never to give up. Your work matters and short efforts that are and i think that in order to be part of the solution we need to continue to work even though we get so disappointed. Its held up in the court rooms and thats frustrating. Its the same as 100 people giving up. Think about. There is any other bills you have seen where people have fought so hard to help pass, and only a few people have made enough noise to say we dont want this and those few people are speaking for the entire country and that happens for lack of participation and motivation. We have to keep at it and never stop because imagine if we all use our voices and we all continue to be part of this movement or any movement imagined all that we can get done and all that we can do. [inaudible] [laughter] i would like to know if you are supporting any candidate . I shouldnt even say that. The second question is i know you are very passionate to social issues and womens issu issues. What are your favorite shows . Im getting into game of thrones. I started years ago and then i got distracted. So the first question to make sure people are voting and participating. I dont think its not like anybody cares what i say, but im not sure while i am but im not going to say who im voting for im going to keep that private. Right now the role i picked up in the beginning is getting peoples ethically engaged, and thats the most important. Its like vote for anyone but trump come about vote for someone and get involved. And then the second question, are you passionate about any other spec im passionate about everything, girl. I am a feminist through and through. I am a humanist. I love animals. The other day i was bugging out about the sharks and overfishing. Im passionate about the criminalization of our people and trying to put a stop to that. I hate guns. There are so many things i of course want to get involved in and all these causes that i care about. And in the future i hope to participate more. Right now starting with immigration, but id like to live in a way that i think everything is thinking about the and her. And i hope that my woes are tears. I like to think of it like that. And your third question, right now i just finished vinyl. Im watching all sorts of stuff. House of cards, orange is the new black, no biggie. [laughter] im going to get into sopranos. Because of netflix, you better show up, now you can watch all sorts of stuff youve missed. I love binging and watching things. Thank you so much. I just want to start by saying your top gun is giving me a lot of life right now. Im going to do so on and its going to be a lot of hair but im going to purchase. This is my life right now. I appreciate everything youre doing and telling your story. Its so interesting. Its really cool to see you here after watching the orange is the new black. I have a very serious question for you right now. I was scrolling through your insta graham feed and noticed you posted a picture of taylor mars, so i want to know who is your Favorite Discount . Earlier when i asked my boyfriend right now he said seiler and there isnt one. But if you could be any, who is your Favorite Discount in general . Connect okay so now i guess the cat is out of the bag. Im binging on the sailor moon. [laughter] im wondering what wa why did i love this show when i was a kid and sometimes i get annoyed when she turns into sailor moon because it takes like 30 seconds. Its worth it though. Im going through every episode. The relationship like that she has with the 60 year mass relationship goals. [laughter] the thing is i posted mars but then i was watching it i was like shes so angry. I think that it would have to be