Nuestra primera joven que queremos presentar es Brenda. Brenda es de la ciudad de Tucson, Arizona, y trabaja en iniciativas de salud fronteriza y como educadora de salud comunitaria en la región fronteriza de Arizona. Como mujer mexicoamericana de primera generación, busca inspirar a otras mexicoamericanas de primera generación para crear cambios positivos en sus…
Our first young adult that we want to highlight is Brenda. Brenda is a native of Tucson, AZ, and works in border health initiatives and as a community health educator in the Arizona border region. As a first generation Mexican-American woman she seeks to inspire other first generation Mexican-Americans to create positive changes in their…
Dear Ones, Even as we hit a giant marker nationally in the number of known COVID-related deaths, our local officials in Austin, where COVID has disproportionately impacted the Latino community, warn that for many of us the virus seems “not yet real.” It’s hard to wrap my head around both realities, though in the world of this…
Hello travelers! I hope this weekend was extended for many of you and an opportunity to rest your bodies and minds after an intense spring. To mark the Memorial weekend, I’m structuring this email a bit differently. Instead of including a contemplative practice and a creative idea, I’m including two articles I read over the…
Greetings! As we’ve slid past the mid-point of May, it’s hard to believe that in a few weeks we’ll be close to three months on this journey. Lots of feelings over here about that, and I would venture to guess that I’m not alone. All the more reason to dig into another contemplative practice this…
Dear friends- Another week is drawing to a close and it’s hard to tell what/if/how we know more. Things are shifting it seems, but some days it feels hard to imagine just where and when this ship is going to land. We shared around this topic on our Tuesday call, trying to engage in some…
Life is such a precious thing. Even though I hear and experience the grief in our midst, and sense the overwhelming fatigue that’s set in after so many weeks of anxiety, I am amazed and inspired every day as I watch people show up. For their families, partners, neighbors, churches, jobs. For friends and children…
I wrote this poem as a love letter to the U.S. border town of Douglas, AZ in reference to its sister border city Agua Prieta, MX. Douglas and Agua Prieta for the most part act as one single place for me and many people. But, the increase in border militarization and organized crime has allowed…
