![]() Christina Mansfield is the Project Director and the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of Fredom for Immigrants (formerly CIVIC). Christina is an activist for social justice, a scholar, and the granddaughter of immigrants. She is a 2012 Echoing Green Fellow and a 2013 Rockwood Fellow for a New California.
![]() Leigh Rooney is the Project Filmmaker and Illustrator. She is a painter, comic artist, and illustrator living in Portland, Oregon. She received her BA from the University of Vermont and her MFA from the New York Academy of Art.
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![]() Monica Pelayo is the Project Humanities Advisor and an Assistant Professor of History at UMass Boston. Professor Pelayo’s research interests include 20th-century social and cultural histories, American politics, immigration, race and ethnicity, and public history. She teaches courses in public history, immigration, and 20th-century history, both at the graduate and undergraduate levels.
![]() Annie Escobar is the Project Filmmaker. She is a Photographer, Storyteller, and Educator. She is the founder of Awake Storytelling, an impact driven company that uses storytelling as a vehicle for changing the way we see ourselves, each other and the world.
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