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Mónica Ramírez Is Teaching Migrant Women How to Organize
Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Growing up around the rows of corn and soybeans in Fremont, Ohio, Mónica Ramírez spent her earliest days being looked after by her maternal bisabuela, or great-grandmother, Virginia Guardiola. From her home in town, Guardiola served as an informal, one-woman welcome committee for farmworkers who arrived in Fremont, disoriented and alone.
Julián Castro Is Bolstering Latino Communities One Grant at a Time
Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Julián Castro has gotten a few things from his mother: a last name, a twin brother, a general sense of optimism, and a penchant for serving his community. Maria del Rosario Castro, a now 79-year-old Mexican American activist, was once a member of La Raza Unida, a prominent Chicano political party in Texas.