Yakeleen Almazan

Yakeleen (she/her) is a Chicana, domestic violence survivor, and social advocate born and raised in South Tucson, Arizona from an immigrant family originally form Oquitoa, Sonora Mexico. As a sophomore in Jonathan Edwards, she is studying Ethnicity, Race, and Migration along with Education Studies as she is interested in generational trauma related to human rights and immigration as well as social justice in Mexico through oral histories. She is also interested in the ways in which societal violence and deportations impact children particularly in Mexico. She has experience working with at-risk individuals from Latin America as an Law intern for Esperanza Law in New Haven, an intern for the Honduras Children’s Project, a director for the Temporary Restraining Order Project at the Yale Law School, and a member of Amnesty International’s chapter at Yale. In her free time, she advocates for the Latinx community as a board member of MEChA de Yale, mentors for Matriculate, and directs Mariachi de Yale!

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