JUSTICE ACTIVIST
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  • Why Do I Care
  • Why Do People Migrate?
  • Stories From the Field
  • My Book
  • Blog
  • Getting Involved
  • Presentations

PUBLIC ​PRESENTATIONS
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On Book and Current Immigration Issues

Contact Pat for Presentations

I am available to make presentations via Zoom or other social platforms to interested groups and organizations. I usually combine reading a short chapter from my book with sharing background for my stories.
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Mayday Vigil, 2014

​Topics for Presentation

  • Political, economic and cultural realities in Guatemala from a human rights perspective
  • Role of indigenous Guatemalan women in defense of human rights
  • Importance of liberation theology in contributing to social and economic equality in Central America
  • Roots of Migration from Central America to USA – 2014-Present
  • Immigration realities at the USA-Mexico border
  • Stopping Migration: U.S. failed policies such as family separation and preventing asylum seekers to a way forward to change the broken immigration system

Past Presentations

  • Portland State University – Women, Gender and Sexuality 
  • Book Reading and Immigration Updates - 15 social justice committees of various churches – Oregon and Tucson, Arizona
  • Oregon Writers Colony Book Fair
  • Holladay Park Plaza, Retirement Community, "Engaging Minds" series
  • Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice
  • Thirsters, Portland, Oregon, a "learned salon" that comes together to discuss issues of common interest
  • Zoom presentations: Villages NW groups

Contact Me

Please email me with your proposed date of presentation, topic, and estimated number of participants. I prefer to use Zoom but will accommodate whatever social platform you are using. All honoraria will be directed to immigrant rights organizations. I donate the proceeds from all book sales to immigrant justice causes.
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