A few weeks ago, I wrote about the absence of positive media images of local brown people . Here's the first of a few follow-up posts about people who counter those images through their daily lives. This is Mari Maldonado. She is a first generation natural-born citizen, the middle child of four who...

When I worked at a different organization over ten years ago, Emmy's ( not her real name ) and my boss did volunteer work together. We had talked and joked with each other while we did meeting scheduling and those types of thngs over the phone; so although we had never met, we had a great relationship...