My name is Erin Aagesen and I am a graduate student studying Life Sciences Communication and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin. This spring... Read More

Nadia Sol Ireri Unzueta Carrasco is 22 years old, and since she began participating with SALUD she has received a bachelors degree in Gender and... Read More

Rosalinda Guzman (picture right) is the youngest member of the SALUD team, and is returning for her third year. She is currently attending Noble Street... Read More

Judith Landeros is a student at Northwestern University, with a double major in Social Policy and Latina/o Studies. Her parents are Mexican immigrants whom she... Read More

Since Edy Dominguez began participating at Radio Arte, he has graduated from Northeastern Illinois University with a major in Communication, Media, and Theater with a... Read More

Laura Cabral returns for her third year with SALUD. Some of my clearest memories from SALUD consist of sitting in the room outside of Ms. Unzueta’s... Read More

Caroline Luna is returning for her second year with SALUD. She is currently a Freshman at DePaul University in Chicago. The program SALUD was an excellent... Read More

Adriana Garcia has been an active member of the SALUD project since the beginning. In 2008 and 2009 she learned to listen and then take... Read More

An immigrant is someone who willingly wants to change their situation in a new country.  You have to cope with a new language, culture, and community.  It is very exciting because compared to where they are coming from there is a lot of opportunity for education, work and advancement [in the U.S.] It is harder for some people to adapt than others. Read More

(Nicky Trasvina spoke at the November 11 Launch of a unique social media campaign designed by members of La Colectiva de Mujeres of La Raza... Read More

Juan Cuba, who teaches people how to use media to tell stories, talks about the need to be strong, media sterotypes, and his sense of belonging. Read More

16-year-old Javier Arellano didn’t know what he was in for when he auditioned for SALUD 2008, now a returning youth participant find out why, for... Read More

Hanna Do is an outreach worker at SEAMAAC, Inc. in Philadelphia. Hanna explains how her experience as a Vietnamese refugee continues to strengthen her and motivate her to do meaningful, community-based... Read More

1. If you are an immigrant, tell us what it means to be an immigrant in the United States. If you are not an immigrant,... Read More

Being an immigrant in the U.S means constantly engaging in the protection and promotion of one’s culture by building voluntarily and sometimes involuntarily a close-knit... Read More

Ming Lo is a producer for Chinese language television LA 18 in Los Angeles, California. Being an immigrant has mixed blessings in America. On the... Read More

Being an immigrant provides new opportunities, challenges, difficulties, which are all different depending on how you are prepared at an individual level. Those who are... Read More

1. Being an immigrant is an opportunity and we should take advantage of it. I think we can reach all our goals by giving it... Read More

1. Being an immigrant means that I feel important, just as anyone else would because I am capable of doing many things. For me, it... Read More

1. To be an immigrant in the United States means that people come from their native country to find work here in order to be... Read More

(Editor's note: Jill was recently appointed Lead Organizer of the NDWA and although she no longer works for LRCL, she was an integral part of... Read More

I came to the U.S. for college, after finishing high school in Lima, Peru, and have now lived here for 21 years. There was a... Read More

Heath Wickline works at Underground Advertising developing the social marketing campaign for the Domestic Worker's Project. Over the past ten years, I’ve worked with many... Read More