Welcome to Oakland; Bienvenidos a Oakland- Shandel’s Story Part 2

(This is Part 2 of Shandel’s immigration story, you can see part 1 here.  Shandel is a dreamer and community organizer in Oakland.  We begin after her family has crossed the border with her mother.) Our journey from Mexico to the U.S. was long and scary but we made it. Life in the U.S hasn’t…


From The Shadows to The Light – Shandel’s Immigration Story – Part 1 

A guest post from Shandel, an Oakland community organizer and dreamer telling her story El Principio El Principio – “The beginning” To my family, that’s what our journey to this country was. The start of a new life. To the woman I am today, it was more like “the end of a life I had…