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Be Strong and Be You…and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise

Women of color today are contributing to an unprecedented wave of “firsts”—whether it’s the first in a family to attend college, the first to serve as CEO of a Fortune 500 company, or the first in public office, women of color are reaching new heights of influence.

Cecilia Muñoz was a first, too, and she knows what it means to make her way without exemplars to follow. The first Latinx to lead the White House Domestic Policy Council, Muñoz draws lessons from the challenges she faced as the senior Hispanic person in the Obama White House and as a longtime powerful voice in the civil rights movement. She shares her insights, along with those of some extraordinary women of color she met along the way, as an offering of inspiration to other Latinas and other women of color who are no longer willing to be invisible or left behind.

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Immigration Matters

Movements, Visions, and Strategies for a Progressive Future

Edited by Ruth Milkman, Deepak Bhargava, and Penny Lewis

(New Press, May, 2021)

During the past decade, right-wing nativists have stoked popular hostility to the nation’s foreign-born population, forcing the immigrant rights movement into a defensive posture. In the Trump years, preoccupied with crisis upon crisis, advocates had few opportunities to consider questions of long-term policy or future strategy. Now is the time for a reset.

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