Vivian is a writer and activist. The daughter and wife of Cuban immigrants, she grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She lives in the beautiful mountains of Reno, Nevada. Vivian is committed to giving voice to humanitarian principles and working to hear them reflected in law and in the larger state and national dialogue. She has lived with multiple sclerosis for 20 years.
My husband Daniel and I were born in the same year to Cuban parents. But the stories of our childhoods are very
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Unaccompanied minors, mostly adolescents, keep arriving at the southern border as news spreads among the desperate and “tempest-tossed” in Central America that the United States will not abandon or refuse children. Their parents are willing to rip out their own
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Unaccompanied minors, mostly adolescents, keep arriving at the southern border as news spreads among the desperate and “tempest-tossed” in Central America that the United States will not abandon or refuse children. Their
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My husband Daniel and I were born in the same year to Cuban parents. But the stories of our childhoods are very different. My parents were upper-middle class from Havana and able
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Calladita te ves más bonita,” me decía mi abuelita. Pero entonces sin fallo, me miraba de reojo y me guiñaba. Pícara pero prudente, en los años 70 cuando primero se propuso la
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Las devastadoras fotos de los niños separados de sus familias en la frontera como parte de la política de “cero tolerancia” de la administración Trump se clavaron en nuestro corazón. Para mi,
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El nuevo año empieza, y como muchos anhelo desesperadamente la calma, el regreso a la “normalidad” que antes disfrutamos sin saberla valorar. Quiero ser positiva, cooperar con los que están sanando, reconstruyendo,
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