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Video: DREAMers and Senator Durbin at Press Conference after Senate Hearing on the DREAM Act, June 28. The bright morning sun shone on my face as I walked up the steps of the metro stop at Union Station, hair bravely curled, blue suit and coral shirt in place. With mounting anticipation, I briskly walked to [...]

When I was a little girl my father announced to my two older brothers and I that he was taking us to the new movie theater in town. We had never been to a movie, so the three of us were super excited as we piled into the red beat-up 1977 Nova that my grandfather used to [...]

There are a few things that I absolutely love to do and would do all of the time if I could. I love to play piano, I love to sleep and I love to talk about the DREAM Act. I especially love to talk about the DREAM Act with people who don’t support it or people who [...]

On a bright Tuesday morning, I stumbled out of bed and into the khaki colored pants and white polo shirt that constituted the uniform at my high school. Sixteen years old and a senior, I was dropped off at 7 a.m., right outside the cafeteria, a weekday ritual for my brother and I. After breakfast, I spent some [...]

On a bright sunny afternoon in late August, I walked in front of my grandparents at a park near their modest home in a lower income neighborhood of San Antonio, Texas. I was eight years old, wearing new jean overalls that I had inherited from a nice family at our small church, when out of the corner of [...]

I used to be convinced that my life was completely unique. Nearly six years ago, in the infinite wisdom of my 20-year old mind, I walked the stage to receive my Bachelor’s degree, thinking to myself that surely no one could understand what I was feeling at that moment. After four years of arduous work, of 21-hour semesters [...]