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Welcome Jhoana Monroy (@jhoanajojo) from Portland, Oregon to the @immigrationmicpodcast! \n\nIn this interview we talk about: \n\nJohana\u2019s work resisting, challenging, and dismantling \u201coppressive systems\u201d through creative avenues. \n\nHer relationship with her parents and coming to the U.S to live the \u201cAmerican Dream\u201d, and not recognizing her father as a young girl at times. \n\nAttending a school that specialized in dual language programs, the social worker whose generosity inspired Johana\u2019s current work in mentoring.\n\nHow moving to a \u201cwhite\u201d community with different educational systems led to bad influences, and how going to an alternative school, becoming a young mom, and her brother\u2019s deportation led her to her current path. \n\nJoining Momentum Alliance (@getyourmomentum) and later on being recruited/ inspired by someone who was \u201cundocumented, unafraid, and unapologetic\u201d, (Johana was denied through the citizenship process through her spouse). \n\nLeading efforts in creating a gala fundraiser for undocumented students at the institution she was attending, which led to the creation for a center, and now has an endowment that awards full ride scholarships. \n\nThe 2016 elections \u201cmy heart still drops still thinking about it, I still get nervous\u201d - \u201cI don\u2019t even know how I survived that day\u2019. \n\nHer ambitions to run for a position, finish her master\u2019s degree, serving her community, --- and words of inspiration: \u201cbe resistant, activate others, step outside your comfort zone\u201d. \n\nAnd much more! \n\nBonus: Sample of an NYC panel discussion for HBO's "Make Love Great Again" with Director Aaron Agrasanchez and Hommy Diaz that I attended!