ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT
Educating Ourselves and Empowering Others Camila Carrera '14 Program Coordinator at the Labor Center For Immigrant Justice (SF Labor Council) Club in Marin with no apparent loss of pride. He always believed that being an immigrant was an asset and he never stopped advocating for himself or his community. He is now the Executive Director of Canal Alliance, a prominent non-profit organization that assists immigrants in San Rafael. My mother, Erin Carrera, meanwhile is a nurse at UCSF, and the level of care and compassion she held for her patients and her fellow nurses has always inspired me to strive to be a better person for not only myself, but those around me. My parents are my heroes and I would not be where I am today without them.
Marin Academy opened my eyes to the world around me and pushed me to explore outside of my comfort zone. Ever since your days at Marin Academy, you've been very active in the community, always advocating for human rights and social justice. You then went on to The George Washington University where you majored in International Affairs with a double concentration in African Studies and Contemporary Cultures. What drove you into this work at such a young age? Since I was little, I was surrounded by people who were passionate about giving back to the community. My father, Omar Carrera, brought me to the United States in the hopes of giving me a better life. I watched him do back-breaking work to support our family and I did not fail to notice the trials and tribulations of being an immigrant in this country. As a little girl, I could not be more proud and humbled as I witnessed my father go from a senior accountant at Mitsubishi in Ecuador to a janitor at Pet
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Marin Academy opened my eyes to the world around me and pushed me to explore outside of my comfort zone. I wanted to combine my love for the diversity of cultures, peoples, languages, and societies with social justice and human rights, which is how I fell upon my major and concentrations. This eventually led me to pursue immigration law as a career.
