DREAMACTIVIST – WHO WE ARE from Dream Activist on Vimeo.
Core Members — All e-mails are name@dreamactivist.org
- Kemi (Texas) – Policy coordinator and Accounting / Finance
- Mohammad (Michigan) – Outreach
- Flavia (California) – Editor
- Daniel (Florida) – Webmaster
My name is Daniel Velazco, I was born in Venezuela, November 12, 1986. Â Me and my parents moved here July 98, my father had an L-1 visa through his company. Â We renewed the visa several times, since the residence petitions were all messed up by different lawyers and getting denied every single time. Â My visa expired once I turned 21 thanks to a lawyer giving me wrong instructions, on waiting, instead of telling me to at least get myself a student visa or so. I aged out. After that, one last petition and my parents and brothers got their residence, about a year ago. Â I graduated HS in 04, with a 3.1 GPA, not that great I know, but I’m not really good at literature or history, I forget very quickly so those were pretty bad grades all the time. I liked math and sciences. Anyways, since then, I’ve been just working on my own, trying to survive. My parents couldn’t afford school for me and I obviously couldn’t get a scholarship. So I opened an LLC and started working on my own, doing websites, development, learning on my own and getting the experience.
- Prerna (California) – New Media and Networking
Prerna immigrated to the United States from Fiji with her family when she was 14 but due to USCIS teetering with CSPA regulations, she aged out on their visa petition after turning 21. She has a Masters degree in International Relations, serves as an Editor of The Sanctuary and as an Immigration blogger at Change.org.
- Juan (Florida) — Media relations / Communications
Juan came to the United States at the age of 11. After filing all his papers and paying all his fees and taxes, he became a victim of the broken system coupled with an incompetent lawyer; hence, became undocumented by no fault of his own. Currently he his going to school, pursuing a bachelors in Political Science and becoming involved within his school and community. He works on the DREAM Act during all hours of the day, from every means of communication and technology. Need or have media coverage? Juan is your guy!
The following persons are integral to this site and deserve standing ovations:
- Mario (California) — Graphic Designer
- Tom and Carlos — programmers for DREAM ACT 2009
- Marisol and Kiran –NYSYLC
- Matias, Tam and Susan from Underground Undergrad and UCLA IDEAS (Alliance of DREAMs)
- Margarita Reyes and Andrea Ortega (An Unfinished DREAM)
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