Elenamary

Working the problem: It’s not as simple as immigrants vs. natives
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Ontario,CA,USA
… migrant workers traveled freely between the United States and Mexico, performing seasonal work … in North Carolina, scrubbing Wal-Mart floors in Ohio or cleaning …
Food-production labor could be happening in your backyard
The Post Online - Athens,OH,USA
… they hosted a [...]

“You have the option” he said to me as I held back the tears. It felt like he was saying that having an option is a good thing. I don’t know if I agree. Sometimes having an option is nice, and sometimes it isn’t and I am not sure if the good [...]

“Where are you from?” The Colombian woman I was interpreting for asked. I told her my mother was Mexican. “You were born in Mexico?” I explained that no, I was born and raised in Ohio.
She leaned in and asked me in Spanish “Oh, ¿entonces tu eres Chhh-iiii-canooo?” (“Oh, so you [...]

I hate my science classes. Not so much because they are poorly structured, or poorly set up to enable learning and comprehension, but because of my classmates. They are constantly competing, frequently mentioning that they are “pre-med” a major that doesn’t even exist at this university.
Yesterday in bio lab I overheard two students [...]

(You should actually vote YES on issues #2, #3, #4 and #5)
Issue #2 Allows voters to vote early by mail. That is it makes it easier to vote by allowing all Ohioans to vote by mail. For example the state of Oregon already does all their voting by mail.
When you go [...]

I was 16 years old the first time I recall talking to a Chicano.
I was 16 years old the first time I can remember hearing Spanglish.
I was 19 the first time I meet someone who identified as Chicano.
I was 21 the first time I thought about identifying as Chicana.
My sister moved to Texas and every [...]