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18 years of America's Racial Climate
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awards & honors
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MacArthur Fellows Program Recepient
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Freedom From Fear Award
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Forbes’s 30 under 30 in Law and Policy
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Chronicle of Philanthropy: 40 under 40 Young Leaders Who are Solving Problems of Today and Tomorrow
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Cosmopolitan's 50 Fearless Women
christina jiménez moreta
early life & education
Christina Jiménez Moreta was born in Quito, Ecuador on 1984. Her mother was a seamstress and her father was security guard at a bank. Moreta's family fled poverty to Queens, New York when she was thirteen years old.
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Christina Jiménez attended high school in New York City. She graduated from Queens College in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts. She then graduated from Baruch College in 2011.
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career
Jimenez couldn't work mall jobs like her peers because she was undocumented. She began working as a babysitter and a social work assistant. She faced educational barriers then decided to work as an activist.
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Jimenez created multiple activists groups including Make the Road New York and New York State Youth Leadership Council. She then joined the Drum Major Institute in 2008 to work on immigration policy and reform.
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