ABOUT
During the 2016 presidential election, communities of color were impacted by the rhetoric used by #45. As a daughter of Mexican immigrants, Andrea Duarte-Alonso knew that #45's words were cruel and untrue.
In November of 2016, Andrea applied for the Jay & Rose Phillips Scholarship, which supports the development and implementation of a self-designed service project to address unmet needs in Minnesota communities. She presented a project using stories to elevate the voices of those unheard in her community of Worthington.
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Small towns don't make it easy when it comes to progressive politics. Still, when vulnerable populations exist in places like non-metropolitan areas, it is important to start changing the narrative and let the rest of the world know what small towns in America look like.
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Through storytelling and non-traditional ways of qualitative methods, the project hopes to report the true stories of what it is like to be a person of color and a 1st or 2nd generation immigrant in rural America.
A BIG THANKS
To the Jay and Rose Phillips Foundation for selecting this project and allowing it to become a reality;
To the St. Mary's community for making their space accessible;
To JBS (pork processing plant) for allowing the opportunity to have a table talk on immigrant rights and to recruit storytellers;
To the volunteers that took time out of their days to help transcribe audios;
To the storytellers because without them, there wouldn't be any stories to share.