Storytelling, Resilience & Latinx Representation with Emmy-winner Claudia Forestieri & Brigitte Muñoz-Liebowitz - Highlights

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"When you immigrate, it's kind of like you're going through adolescence because you're in a new place. You feel weird in your own skin. You're learning new things. Everything is changing. You feel awkward. So that also helped us connect the adult stories to the children's stories.”

“To me, America is about coexisting. It's about a million different journeys happening all at once, but really it being the same journey, which is to self-actualization to be seen, to be loved. I know that's not very capitalistic or whatever, but that's what I really see, especially in the immigrant community. It's self-actualization and not just for yourself, but to create that opportunity for your progeny, for your legacy.”

"When I think of America, what America is, it's the nation built by immigrants that continues to succeed in large part because of the ... 

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