#66: Rocio Lopez - A Product Designer & a DACA Recipient is Standing Up for All DREAMers
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#66: Rocio Lopez - A Product Designer & a DACA Recipient is Standing Up for All DREAMers

Rocio Lopez came to the U.S. as an undocumented minor and lived on the East Side of Palo Alto. For years, she and her family have gone through so much struggle until the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA was signed by President Obama, a program granting temporary work permits to immigrants who came to the U.S. as children illegally. Recently, DACA, has been repealed by the Trump administration. And Rocio is one of the 800,000 DREAMers that are going to be affected by this decision. The average DACA recipient is 26 years old who came to the U.S. at 6 years. 91% are employed, and 100% have no criminal record. They pay $500 to renew every two years and contribute $800 M per year to the government. Rocio is a Product Designer and an amazing speaker. She considers herself an American who is willing to die for her country. But why is America trying to persecute her along with other hundreds of thousands of DREAMers? Now is the time for you to show you care. We hope for you to bring two takeaways from this episode: 1. Meet other DREAMers. 2. Make sure you call your members of Congress to pass the DREAM Act over the next six months.

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#78: Ana Díaz-Hernández - Head of Sales for Interviewing.io & a Leader for the LatinX Tech Community

#78: Ana Díaz-Hernández - Head of Sales for Interviewing.io & a Leader for the LatinX Tech Community

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#77: Vicki Tan - Product Designer at Headspace talks about Mindfulness

#77: Vicki Tan - Product Designer at Headspace talks about Mindfulness

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#76: Gary Vaynerchuk - CEO of VaynerMedia

#76: Gary Vaynerchuk - CEO of VaynerMedia

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19 Helmi 201856min

#75: Heather Swan - Journey From Retail to an Enterprise Account Executive at Zoom

#75: Heather Swan - Journey From Retail to an Enterprise Account Executive at Zoom

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31 Tammi 201832min

#74: Ian Harriman - from a Sales Development Rep to an Account Executive at Checkr

#74: Ian Harriman - from a Sales Development Rep to an Account Executive at Checkr

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#73: Kyle Woumn - Software Engineer at Twilio, who Turned an Internship into a Full-time Offer

#73: Kyle Woumn - Software Engineer at Twilio, who Turned an Internship into a Full-time Offer

Today, we take a closer dive into getting internships and how you can leverage those to get full-time offers. Kyle Woumn is a fullstack engineer on the messaging experience team at Twilio, a cloud-co...

30 Joulu 201750min

#72: Marco Morawec - Founder of The Firehose Project (Remote Coding Program)

#72: Marco Morawec - Founder of The Firehose Project (Remote Coding Program)

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18 Joulu 201752min

#71: Jon Deng - U.S. Army Captain who Became a Software Engineer at Snapchat

#71: Jon Deng - U.S. Army Captain who Became a Software Engineer at Snapchat

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2 Joulu 201752min