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Tamara Schlez discusses what drew her from Buenos Aires, Argentina to North Carolina, what initially intrigued her about psychology, and how she obtained her current position as an ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) Coach and Outreach Specialist for El Futuro. Initially joining El Futuro to help launch the ADHD program, Schlez now…

Pilar Rocha-Goldberg is the President & CEO of El Centro Hispano. She begins by recounting her early life in Bogotá, Colombia, where she attended university and became a nutritionist-dietitian in 1988, later working for Nestlé. During a neonatologist conference hosted by Nestlé in 2002 in Cartagena, she met Ron Goldberg, a neonatologist at Duke…

Paola Saldivias Méndez was born in Quito, Ecuador, before moving to Bolivia with her family as a baby and begins by detailing her family’s story. Her educational experiences included her “American” bilingual school, where teachers fostered her love for education, and her degree in Science and Social Communication from Universidad Católica…

As Bishop of the Diocese of Raleigh, Rafael Zarama oversees a network of about one hundred Catholic churches in the eastern half of North Carolina. Parishioners in this region are diverse and include people who have immigrated from Latin American countries such as Mexico, Nicaragua, and El Salvador, where Catholicism is a prevalent religion. He…

Lilibeth Andrés is the Engagement Coordinator for the Digital Equity Initiative in the NC Farmworker Health Program. Andrés was born in Chapel Hill and raised in Sanford, North Carolina, and remains committed to serving her community by working to increase access to healthcare. In this interview, Andrés reflects on her parents’ and grandparents’…

Leticia Zavala was born in Michoacán, México and moved to the United States with her parents around the age of 6. Zavala is the former Vice President and a longtime organizer with the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), one of the country’s oldest and largest agricultural labor unions and the first union to represent migrant H-2A workers on…

Julio Gutiérrez is an anthropology doctoral student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Julio was born and raised in San Salvador, El Salvador, and held both U.S. and Salvadoran citizenship (the former was passed down through his mother who obtained it when living in Los Angeles prior to his birth). He migrated to the U.S. with his…

Lornaida Avilés de León is a Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Department of Romance Studies, a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Faculty Fellow, and a Study Abroad Faculty Leader. Lornaida was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and migrated to the US when she was 12. During this…

Niccolo Roditti, who was born in 1996 in Guayaquil, Ecuador and moved to the U.S. at age three, is the Assistant Director of the LGBTQ Youth Center of Durham, part of the LGBTQ Center of Durham. Niccolo discusses conflicts and other intersections of queerness and traditional Ecuadorian culture. In addition to describing the experiences of queer…

This interview was conducted in Spanish by Johana Bautista-Ayala with her mother, Elsi Bautista. Throughout the interview, Elsi tells us her family’s perspective and history on their migration experience from Honduras to the United States due to environmental factors, primarily the disaster caused by Hurricane Mitch. Elsi recounts much of this…