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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.  
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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.


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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.

Community Bonds: Life Inside Immigration Detention in Massachusetts is a project of the organization Freedom for Immigrants (formerly CIVIC).  To learn more about Freedom for Immigrants and join our movement, please visit www.freedomforimmigrants.org.

The project is funded in part by the generous support of Mass Humanities, which receives support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.  To learn more about Mass Humanities, please visit http://www.masshumanities.org.


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