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If this country continues to deport the undocumented community, it is missing out on courageous, strong, intelligent, family-loving, hard-working people of great value.

 

Deport Me: Alejandro Fuentes-Mena’s story of hard work, familial love, and his journey to becoming one of the first two DACAmented teachers in the country.

MONOLOGUIST’S BIO

Alejandro Fuentes-Mena was born in Valparaiso, Chile, and grew up in San Diego, California after the age of four. He received a B.A. in Psychology from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. Through Teach for America, Alejandro was one of the first two DACAmented teachers in the nation and is now in his sixth year of teaching in Colorado. He is the founder and Chief Programs Director of Radical Arts Academy of Denver (RAAD), a K-8 charter school with an arts-based/community-responsive model opening in 2023.

Mural location: Eugene Field Library - 810 S University Blvd, Denver, CO 80209

About Motus Theater’s collaboration with muralist edica pacha

Muralist Edica Pacha is installing 12 murals (six in Denver and six in Boulder, Colorado) featuring Motus Theater UndocuAmerica project monologists. Each mural includes a QR code to the English and Spanish video of the monologist reading their own story. Regardless of your perspective on immigration, the UndocuAmerica project allows you to know more about the impact of current immigration policies on the lives of undocumented families in Colorado.

FOR Other Ways to Experience and Share REY’s Story

  • Shoebox Stories UndocuAmerica Podcast Episode 4
    José Andrés is an internationally-recognized culinary innovator, New York Times bestselling author, educator, television personality, humanitarian, and chef/owner of ThinkFoodGroup. He reads Alejandro Fuentes-Mena’s story of his hard-working parents and celebrates the assets he and his family are to our country.