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When I came to the United States, the topic was the multi-cultural mosaic. Everybody contributes a little bit. And there was the melting

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pot that was also a piece. And so it was about we can all blend all of us together and we'll come up with one great culture.

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And now we're talking about fences. We're talking about security, securing our borders. It's definitely not the same spirit

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with the view of different people coming into the country. And so I hope that, that, that for my community

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that thou will disappear. In some way our dissipate and go back to celebration of differences. I feel that the reason I went

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into this field is because I wanted other people in the field to see people who look like me. I wanted for children who needed a therapist.

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And is there Latinos to have the opportunity to see somebody that looks like that they feel. You can understand my experience,

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you can understand how I feel because you look like me. And as Peter became the ASPE, does she very much who I

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was up until that point. I certainly didn't asking myself AS in a leadership role. I saw myself as an academe.

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That's an academic like, you know, on it. I'm going to do well in school. I am going to have a career, um, when I have a job

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and keep my head down into I think it was through SBI that I discover that it's not just about you doing your thing,

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it's about helping others do their thing, making sure they get to do it. Because here there were people who were good students in school who

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had graduated college and decided to come back and help others do the same thing. And I said, Well, ultimately that's going to be my role.

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The thing is everything that we really want we have to work towards and we have to put forth effort. And so that's where talk has to match action.

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That's cool integrity. When what you do and what you say, actually go planting hay. And when you become responsible,

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not just for yourself and your actions, but for the outcome in your community. So when you can say, you know what, the reason I can do this is

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because I can't else in college, you know. Well, you know, we were not included were not nobody considers us as far as becoming part of the college campus.

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Okay. So what am I just going to sit around and complain? Now? I have to go responsible

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for the change that I want to see. So okay. So silently protesting and writing letters and talking to everybody

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that we willing to listen in all of it in a respectful way.