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Currently pushing back against Senate Bill 4, Damaris is extremely passionate about standing up for her community, knowing that the passage of the bill (which may be signed by the governor any day this week), will have immediate ramifications on the undocumented community, since it calls for local police to act as ICE.\n\nDamaris has first hand experience growing up in the shadows, in fear that her parents might not return the next day. She speaks to me about experiencing discrimination in church because of her family\u2019s status from other Hispanic American kids - the discrimination got so bad that she stopped going.\n\n\u201cI became an adult at 15\u201d - Damaris talks to me about several challenges she\u2019s faced, including not being able to finish her degree because of a family member\u2019s ailment, along with a personal loss that led her to her current activism work: she\u2019s pushing through and surviving with all her might.\n\nShe talks about how most of her extended family is more conservative, which poses an additional challenge for her - and how faith plays a big role in her family\u2019s beliefs and her own beliefs - incredibly interesting.\n\nShe makes a passionate plea for more Spanish speaking folks and US born citizens from the local community to join the efforts in marching, protesting, and testifying - she\u2019s working on outreach to get more voices involved.