About

I am the first of many generations to set foot into a college campus. My voice does not only represent the voices of ethnic minorities struggling to find themselves in the academia but also delivers the concerns of youth troubled by the detention and the deportation of their parents and families. I was born in Thomasville, Georgia to indigenous immigrant parents from Ixmiquilpan, Hidalgo, Mexico.  Shortly after my birth, my mother was faced with deportation procedures separating my small family. My father remained in the United States working the fields as means of providing an income for our family while my mother returned to Ixmiquilpan with me in her arms. I am not thankful or am in anyway grateful for the emotional and deragatory treatment my mother faced while going through deportation procedures but instead value the time I was raised along the loving side of my great-grandmother,  grandmothers and grandfathers. At about the age of 4 I left my Otomi community and arrived in Houston, Texas to begin my schooling years.

I am currently an undergraduate student at the University of Texas at Austin majoring in Government, Mexican American Studies, and Indigenous studies. As the daughter of immigrant indigenous parents and as a member of an immigrant community in the United States, my journey calls for the examination of  the presence of indigenous and immigrant people incarcerated in detention centers.