The U.S./Mexico Border: Inequality, Resistance, and Sanctuary

Katie Sharar has lived and worked in the U.S./Mexico borderlands since 2003. In this place, she has studied, taught college and adult basic education, accompanied people leaving detention and migrating from south to north, and crossed herself between Mexico and the U.S. thousands of times. She grew up in California, attended college in Minnesota, and moved immediately after graduation to El Paso/Juarez to live in solidarity with migrants in a Catholic Worker inspired house of hospitality. She then worked with immigrant families (mothers and children) recently released from a detention facility in Austin, Texas, before moving to Guatemala to accompany human rights advocates there. In 2008, she moved to Tucson, where she currently resides, to pursue a graduate degree. She has stayed because it is home, and to participate in the rhythms of the beautiful, inspiring, and heartbreaking place.To learn more about Holden Village, visit: www.holdenvillage.org or to listen to more audio recordings visit: http://audio.holdenvillage.org