DACA
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California DREAMer: Pedro Freire Heads West with an M.A. from SLU (and a lot of ideas!)
For Pedro Freire (Class of 2022, MALS) the journey has been long from South America to Connecticut to CUNY to California—and often arduous. But now he can see how all his experiences, good and bad, have brought him here, to the University of California Riverside Ph.D. program in ethnic studies. “I came to the US…
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Gabriela Quintanilla is a DREAMer
Gabriela Quintanilla is a DREAMer. And she has some big dreams. Born in El Salvador, Gabriela came to the U.S. as an undocumented immigrant at age 13 and grew up in the Catskills region of New York. She went to high school in Liberty, and was very active in her student government. When President Obama…