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Immigrant Communities in the New Economy/ Comunidades inmigrantes en la nueva economía
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Loan Officer, Southern Reparations Loan Fund
Nikki Marín Baena is the loan officer of the Southern Reparations Loan Fund. Her parents are Colombian and she was born in North Jersey, but her heart will always belong to the mountains of North Carolina. She worked at Weaver Street Market and Firestorm Books and Cafe, both in North Carolina. She has also worked in worker-cooperative development since 2011, with a focus on immigrant communities. Nikki is passionate about cooperatives (as a...
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Rosalia Guerrero-Luera worked on community development, economic empowerment, and political education. She currently works as Program Manager for the Community Health Worker training program at the UT-Health Sciences Center in Houston. Alberto and Rosalia live in Houston, TX.
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I am Alberto Luera. I am a native of South Texas and spent practically all of my life on the Texas Mexican border. Ethnically, I am deemed a Mexican American. Culturally and politically, I am a Chicano. Since my graduation from college in 1969, I have spent all of my professional life in the non profit sector with an emphasis in social service, advocacy activities, community development, economic empowerment and political education. My career...
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