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Susan Clifford discusses her extensive experience with the Latino community through her academic work, professional career, and personal life. Her husband is from Celaya in Guanajuato, Mexico, where scant job opportunities pushed him to seek work in North Carolina. Today, Susan works at the Orange County Health Department as the Immigrant and…

Claudia Rojas is the program director for the Center for Latin American Health, or CELAH, at the University of North Carolina. In her position Claudia coordinates the many operations of CELAH. Her team goes to specific clinics to help Spanish-speaking clients navigate the healthcare system. This may include following up to make sure that clients…

Reverend Robert Seymour sat on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Hospital Board of Directors from 1980-1984 and after that was an active lobbyist for improving healthcare accessibility in the Chapel Hill, North Carolina Community. The Reverend is noted for his knowledge of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Hospital…

Alex Sherman discusses the make-up of Student Health Action Coalition (SHAC) and their medical and dental clinics. Sherman discusses the demographics that these clinics serve, what services their patients usually require, and what services SHAC can offer them. Sherman elaborates on specific services, particularly the Amigas en Salud community…

In Hetali Lodaya's interview with Ivan Parra, Parra discusses his background in community organizing beginning in Colombia, and his subsequent move to the United States. He tells how he applied community organizing techniques learned in Colombia to an AmeriCorps position at El Centro Hispano. They also discuss the value of relational community…

This interview with Joshua Ford focuses on his personal two-year experience living and working in Mexico City. The interview explores Ford's work through the Fulbright scholarship, where he assisted Mexican entrepreneurs through Endeavor, a company that serves to connect Mexican entrepreneurs with powerful business mentors from across Mexico and…

Dr. Judith Blau is a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This interview not only focuses on how the Human Rights Center strives to guarantee Human rights for everyone, but it also focuses on the relationships our community has with the Latino immigrant community in Carrboro, N.C. Dr. Judith Blau describes the…

Dr. Judith Blau is a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and chair of the Social and Economic Justice Undergraduate Minor. Blau is the founder and director of the Human Rights Center of Chapel Hill & Carrboro (HRC). Major topics of the interview center around the origins of the Human Rights Center of Chapel…

Christina Olson is currently a first-year student at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. She is originally from Greensboro, N.C. and studied at the University North Carolina at Chapel Hill for her undergraduate education. She has volunteered at the Student Health Action Coalition (SHAC) for four years, providing access to…

Florence Siman is the Director of Health Programs at El Pueblo, a non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening the Latino community in Raleigh, N.C. She is originally from El Salvador, but has lived in Chapel Hill, N.C. for thirty-three years. She has worked at El Pueblo for nine years, where she works with lay health advisors, or promotoras,…