Kern County has a legacy of growing strong Latina leaders. Now the community is trying to keep the empowerment going by teaching investment and networking skills.
Learn about the path that Mexican Nataly Morales had to take to become the 1st gen of her family to study at Harvard University with the support of her mother.
Learn about the path that Mexican Nataly Morales had to take to become the 1st gen of her family to study at Harvard University with the support of her mother.
Tania Dominguez-Rangel ’21 has long been concerned with representation.
A DACAmented graduating senior born in Mexico City, Dominguez-Rangel grew up in the Atlanta suburb of Roswell, Georgia. While she had long been aware of public discourse around undocumented immigrants, the realization that few of the stories in the media were coming directly from the affected population came fairly recently.
In December 2019, the Undocumented Filmmakers Collective responded to a Netflix-backed documentary series, “Living Undocumented,” with an open letter. In it, the collective questioned the series production methodologies, noting that no undocumented filmmakers were part of the crew. “Our undocumented community does not need any more empathy through films created for mainstream American audiences,” they wrote. “What we need is genuine solidarity so that we can thrive by creating change from within our own communities and in our case, creating media about us, for us, by us. What