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Rise Up: Be Heard

This Chicana just won a global human rights prize, yet most Americans don't know her name

Esperanza Mendez

12/07/16 1:36PM

This Bay Area artist is challenging the dominant narrative around gentrification

Jacob Simas and Symone Jackson

11/11/16 4:52PM

Seeking asylum in U.S. immigration courts is a lot like playing roulette

Daniel F. Jimenez, Maria Marcelina Crystal Vega, and Symone Jackson

11/02/16 4:19PM

This indigenous woman is using amazing, 700-year-old embroidery to organize her community

Esperanza Mendez

10/10/16 7:21PM

Even after Obamacare, minorities can’t afford health care

Kody Stoebig and Michelle Zenarosa

This is what it’s like to be undocumented and uninsured

Betty Marquez, Cecilia Chavez, and Michelle Zenarosa

Meet the people who want to completely get rid of prisons

Jacob Simas, Michelle Zenarosa, Myles Bess, and Symone Jackson

The U.S. sucks at getting people to vote

Gabriela Espinal, Jacob Simas, Kristian Castro, and Maria Marcelina Crystal Vega

How is it still so hard to get clean drinking water in America?

Betty Marquez, Esperanza Mendez, Jacob Patterson, Kody Stoebig, and Michelle Zenarosa

Our Rise Up: Be Heard fellows envision a more perfect world

What it's like to be young and undocumented in the STD capital of California

Betty Marquez and Kody Stoebig

Pregnancy is supposed to be magical, but for me it was horrifying—and I’m not alone

Esperanza Mendez

Juvenile hall schools were given a report card, and it came back all F's

Symone Jackson

Pesticides were found in the hair samples of schoolchildren, and parents are fighting back

Michael Wafford

This trans woman found her safe haven at El Pollo Loco

Michelle Zenarosa

As Supreme Court gets set to rule on DAPA, these immigration activists are looking ahead

Kristian Castro

This native teen’s death speaks to a larger crisis on Indian reservations

Jacob Patterson

These 5 things can end gun violence on college campuses

Maria Marcelina Crystal Vega

6/09/16 12:48PM

Can’t vote? Here's how you can still influence the 2016 election

Gabriela Espinal and Kody Stoebig

5 ways to end the school to prison pipeline

Kody Stoebig and Maria Marcelina Crystal Vega

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