I did not see that the mirrors lining that room held another side, a side of my family’s story that we pretended not to see.
Resilience
I've lived all my life in a world of machismo where women are nobody. Every day that goes by I'm still in the fight to have a voice.
Not From Here, Not From There: Margarita Vidales
My family was going through financial and emotional difficulties due to the unspoken illness my mom had been keeping from us. The only solution my mom knew to feed us, was to rekindle the relationship with the man who fathered some of her children.
More Human Than My Father
Our youth can change the cycle of poverty, of instability. They too can be the leaders who create change.
I Was Tasked With A Job
...I was born in struggle from the first day of my existence.
My Autobiography
If I work it is out of necessity, not because I don’t need to work, that’s why we’re working.
Fighting and Learning
The other girls thought I was from Mexico, and they used to say “go back to your Mexico, where you should be.”
Hardworking Girl
It turns out that the people in the office looked at the report the doctor sent from the hospital and they realized she got hurt. They asked what had happened.
In The Fields
I only went to the hospital and back to the house. A week later and I’m making his lunches, doing everything I can.
Méndez
Working in the fields will always be one of the best experiences and lessons of my life, as I was always someone who thought (and said) that I would never work doing this.