Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World
2013
0h 22m
A social justice organization based in Oakland-Asian Immigrant Women Advocates-focused on building the collective leadership of limited-English speaking immigrants, and empowered women and youth to become powerful agents of social change.
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