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Dec 19, 2020 57 min

Immigrant Student Activists Fighting for Justice

from The Critical Teaching and Learning Forum Hosted by Erik Jacobson

Today’s guest on the podcast is Giovana Castaneda, a youth leader at Make the Road New Jersey in Elizabeth, NJ and a student at Rutgers – Newark. Giovana has been an activist since she was 16 years old, focusing on immigrants' rights and workers' rights. She is currently involved in an effort to remove police from Elizabeth’s public schools. In the conversation, she discusses the criminalization of students, getting the receipts via Open Public Record Act (OPRA) requests and making unexpected connections. Information about Make the Road New Jersey can be found here: https://www.maketheroadnj.org/

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