Immigrant Stereotypes Redefined

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Tell Us Your Good Deed

Volunteering to the stART Festival

Why are you participating?

I have always been looked down upon just being a woman in the tech industry. I currently fight against sexist stereotypes.

Dorchester, MA
United States

Tell Us Your Good Deed

Pushed a person (35yr old black male) in an electric wheelchair approximately a mile to a T station so he could charge his chair (also put $ on his Charlie Card)

Why are you participating?

I believe in focusing on positive nature of living.

Boston, MA
United States

Tell Us Your Good Deed

I met with leaders at the United Nations in NYC on October 17th 2016 and advised them on policys that affects immigrants around the world. Most of what I spoke on was adapted into new changes and went into effect globally which will change the way migration is viewed by the people in power who make decisions on those that are not. As it relates to migration.

Why are you participating?

Two years after I came to the US I became infect with HIV. Which greatly affected my going back to my country of origin and my stay here.