Rosabel Pastrana

Rosabel Pastrana is the founder and coordinator of the folk dance group The Sagrada Familia. Through the dance group she is very active in her community. She also works as a health promoter, and received her certification as a General Practitioner in Mexico. She discusses how her life has been affected by the Coronavirus pandemic, how it has changed her family’s livelihood, and how she has been involved with her community during this time.

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Emma Sanchez

Emma Sanchez grew up in a small town in El Salvador and her life was directly impacted by war and conflict, including the murder of her father in 1989. She narrates several difficult periods of her life: the murder of her father when she was 8, the kidnapping and disappearance of her brother in 2010, the long-term illness of her mother, and the COVID-19 pandemic, which affected her entire family.

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