Her role in the campaign:
"My job is to connect technology and digital and old-school [campaign] organizing. I use digital platforms and help build and guide the technology for traditional grassroots organizing — all the phone calls and door knocking — but in the 21st century."
Her story:
"My family is from El Paso, TX, and Gallup, NM. I'm a fourth-generation American, but I often tell folks I'm not sure when we became Americans. One day we lived in Mexico and another day we lived in America."
"Part of why I am doing this campaign is because of my family's story. My grandfather was a United States citizen, but he was deported when he was 4 years old during the Great Depression under a program called Operation Wetback, which was a government-sponsored program to give back jobs to 'real Americans.' Donald Trump has said that he would like to reinstate this program if he becomes president. That is one of the most motivating things that I have in this election — that this person is talking about something that directly affected my family."
What working with a large group of Latinos on the campaign means to her:
"I grew up in LA in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, but we were mostly Mexican. Being able to meet Puerto Ricans and Colombians and Dominicans and hear their stories — it's incredible. I'm very used to being the only one in the room; the only woman and definitely the only Latina. On campaigns, usually all the Latinos are in Latino outreach, but not here. We're in travel and digital and tech and in the field."
