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My blogs
| Gender | Female |
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| Location | Berkeley, California, United States |
| Introduction | No, I don't attend Havard Law School. This blog is about my struggle to get to law school and Harvard is one of my dream schools. In 2007, I was in a master's program at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. At the time, I also worked with prisoners and their families in EPOCA, Ex-prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement. At EPOCA, prisoners were leading and actively working for their own rights and to improve the lives of their families. There were dedicated lawyers who helped the prisoners to change policies and to stop discriminatory practices against prisoners and their families. Before my work at EPOCA, the legal system always made me feel intimidated, threatened and invisible. But through EPOCA, for the first time in my life, I foresaw that I can hold a position that has power in a thoughtful conscious way that will not require subservience or perpetuate institutional violence against people and the natural world. Along the way, I encountered many experiences of healing, which I share openly and honestly here. |
| Interests | working with prisoners and going into prisons w/ people from the outside. raising niko. flowers trees bodies of water land birds animals rocks. reclaiming indigenous knowledge to heal and to reclaim self determination/sovereignty. i find solace in empty industrial factories and railroad tracks. |
| Favorite Books | To Kill a Mockingbird, Jazz by Toni Morrison, The Color Purple, Cousins by Patricia Grace, Ceremony by Leslie Marmo Silko, This Bridge Called My Back, Wuthering Heights, Jean Rhys, The Shark that Ate the Sun by John Pule Poetry: Pat Parker, Joy Harjo, Jayne Cortez, Sonia Sanchez, Konai Helu, Samoan poet MoeMoe Von Reiche, Chrystos, Langston Hughes, William Blake, Gwendolyn Brooks, My Father was a Toltec by Ana Castillo |