Ep. 10 Angelica's Story

Angelica's story moving from Colombia, came with a long journey of discovering her worth and identity as an immigrant, as well as a crash course in understanding other immigration stories and more. We are so honored to get to talk with Angelica and glean from her story in this episode! She shares incredible wisdom and grace-filled challenges. A little about Angelica: Angelica Acosta Garnett was born and raised in Bogota, Colombia. She immigrated to the United States when she was 17 years old and has firsthand experience of what it is like to be an immigrant in this country. Angelica holds bachelor’s degrees in history and religion and a graduate degree in social studies education from the University of Florida. She has worked as a US government teacher, Communities in Schools site coordinator, immigration law paralegal and continues to work as an interpreter/translator in Charlotte, NC. She currently also serves at ABARA, an NGO at the US/MEX border, where she manages the Asylum Narrative Translation Project. Angelica also works as a trainer, teaching workshops and equipping groups and organizations that desire to better understand their immigrant neighbors and create culturally relevant programs and services. Angelica has been married to Tyler for 13 years and they have three children. They live in Charlotte, NC and are members of Warehouse 242 a presbyterian church where Angelica is an elder. Angelica feels led to engage in conversations about the border out of her compassion and calling, and she loves being able to merge her teaching, immigration and government knowledge with her passion for advocacy and community engagement.