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Are you the eldest daughter of an immigrant family?

Oh well, I'm so glad that you are here!

Paola is a doctor in psychology who works in the Bronx community. Paola migrated to the USA from Bogota Colombia when she was 14 years old. Since then she has been in charge of her family pretty much as she calls it the CEO of her family!

This can be a very challenging experience, holding tons of responsibility and Paola also has seen it as an opportunity to learn from all she is capable of doing. 

Check out this episode with Paola to learn more about her experiences, how she has been able to process her immigration journey, and the connection between mental health and physical health

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Are you working in a field where you are the only Latina in the room? Have you ever felt that you are exhausted from doing the hard work of making an impact?

If you answered yes to any of those questions, this episode is for you!

Marcia moved from Ecuador to the USA when she was 7 years old. We explored how her immigration journey has impacted her life in many different ways. From feeling less confident at times to learning that her diversity is in fact her strength! 

We also talked about venture capital and the startup world where Marcia has been creating a wonderful impact, raising important questions, and including diverse voices in every space. Marcia is motivated by economic justice, equity, and opportunities for those who haven't had the chance! She will tell you more about her work in this interview, and about the accelerator programs she has created, she also shared wonderful resources! 

I hope that you enjoy this interview as much as I did!

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Can you imagine the culture shock of a 16-year-old girl traveling to Canada for the first time all by herself? 

Back when Katerina migrated phones weren't a thing so communication with her family back home in Ukraine was pretty much nonexistent! Katerina shares how she was able to navigate the challenges and the culture shocks while feeling the most excited about the opportunity of living abroad! 

Katerina first moved to Canada and later she came to the USA for medical school. Today she is a wonderful ophthalmologist and we talked about her career, her immigration journey, and her identity! 

Enjoy this conversation, it was truly special and inspirational. 

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Sara has been an inspiration for me with her ongoing immigrant rights activism, media speaking engagements on behalf of immigrants and her personal journey as immigrant. Her presence is impressive already, and she is just getting started. 

We talk about:

- Her immigration journey of arriving to the USA from Costa Rica when she was 3 years old.

- Her experience as a #DACA recipient 

- The work she does as an immigrants right activist, what it looks like on the day-to-day, her struggles, and ideas about what we can do to help immigrants. 

You can find Sara at www.instagram.com/misssaramora and www.instagram.com/populationmic

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Hoy les traigo la conversa que tuve con mi amigo Isaí. Isaí llegó a Seattle con solo 22 años y ya tenía trabajo en Amazon, una de las empresas mas importantes y competitivas del país. Se fue de México al graduarse y hoy cuenta como ha sido su experiencia, cómo logró conseguir ese maravilloso trabajo, el proceso de entrevistas estando en México y cómo ha sido el adaptarse a Seattle y a su trabajo siendo inmigrante. 

Recuerden chequear el website modernimmigrant.net para más información sobre los invitados y cada episodio, y también nuestro Instagram https://www.instagram.com/modernimmigrant/ si quieren dejarnos algún comentario o contactarnos. 

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Amplifying the voices of Afro Latinas and first generation immigrants. 

Ligia was born and grew up in the US identifying herself as Dominican and Latina. She never found herself represented on the Latin American media or TV when growing up. In this special episode you will learn from Ligia's story and experience as an Afro Latina and daughter of immigrants. She shares her journey and process of identifying as black, the racism and struggles that she has dealt with, and what can US as latinas do to support the black community and the #BLM movement. 

Ligia also shares books and additional ways to educate yourself on these topics. 

Here are a few books including hers!

The Mulatto Republic: Class, Race, and Dominican National Identity. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0813061962/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Nsf6EbGV17PR4

Reconstructing  Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic https://www.amazon.com/dp/0813036755/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Etf6EbPK8VK05

Heard: How Loss Led Us To Love By Ligia Cushman
https://www.ligiacushman.com/publications

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If you are a first generation immigrant, if you feel that you are a little bit from everywhere, or if you are raising your family within a multicultural home, this episode is for you . Paz Ellis is the author of the memoir "Plantains And The Seven Plagues; Half Dominican Half Cuban And Full Of Life". In this episode, she shares what being a first generation immigrant has meant to her, the challenges of growing up in a multicultural home while living in the USA and her process of writing and publishing her book. We talked about important values that she learned from her parent's culture and their heritage and how is she able now to share those values with her husband and sons. 

Head over to her website pazellis.com if you would like to read her book. It's available on Amazon too!

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Hoy les traigo un episodio especial en el que hablamos de los sucesos que están ocurriendo tras la muerte de George Floyd y cómo dos inmigrantes latinas lo están viviendo. Invité a mi amiga Doris (Mexicana viviendo en Seattle) y hablamos desde nuestra experiencia. Lo que estamos aprendiendo, las cosas que no sabíamos que pasaban y las cosas que hemos aprendido. También hablamos de nuestros países, del supuesto “no racismo” que muchos no ven y de las grandes diferencias que hay entre ambos. Te invito a que los escuches, sobretodo si estás pensando en cómo tener ésta conversación con otros. Sabemos que no es fácil! si te sientes un poco incómodo al hablar de esto, vas por buen camino. 

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Andrea decidió irse de Mexico por amor. Persiguiendo la oportunidad de vivir con su novio en Santiago de Chile. Se conocieron en Canadá cuando los dos estudiaban inglés y por más que evitaron enamorarse, pasó!

Andrea comparte su historia, de inmigración y las lecciones que ha aprendido en el camino. Todavía siente que está en un proceso de adaptación. Al llegar a Chile le tocó vivir las protestas en medio de un momento muy difícil que pasaba el país. Poco después vino la pandemia del coronavirus. Todos estos eventos han afectado su inmigración y nos cuenta lo que ha aprendido en el proceso. 
A pesar de los retos que está enfrentando sigue emprendiendo y creando. Andrea hace manualidades y crea piezas hermosas que le recuerdan a su país y sus raíces. También junto a su novio creó una empresa para ayudar y asesorar a personas que deseen ir al extranjero a aprender inglés, así como lo hicieron ellos. En la entrevista nos da todos los detalles de como contactarlos. 

Disfruten esta conversa! 

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At 12 years old Anna wrote in her diary that she wanted to leave Belarus. She became an immigrant when she was 19 years old. She was the first, and only in her family, to leave her home. She took the amazing opportunity to go live in Dubai and later on she moved to the USA where she currently resides. 

Anna shares her journey living in Belarus, Dubai and the USA and how each experience has made her more open to the way she sees the world. 

We talk about the impact that the American culture had in her life, the challenge of creating deep connections as an immigrant, her experience of being in a long distance relationship until her visa was ready for her to move to the USA and how she was able to reinvent herself from being a "Russian Model" to being a student and a wife, challenging herself and growing with every experience. 

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