Listen "VISTA Table Talk Series, Season 1 Mini Series: Dreams Bigger Than a Wall - A Mexican-American Sports Upbringing"
Episode Synopsis
The VISTA Table Talk Mini Series is a three part virtual series featuring VISTA members from the Up2Us Summer VISTA Program. Each part will showcase different summer VISTAs and their experiences as brand founders, DACA recipients from immigrant families and women leaders in sports. The goal of the Summer VISTA program is to provide organizations with short term capacity building AmeriCorps members to support organizations' mission to alleviate poverty over a nine week summer term. In the second part of our mini series, we’re joined by Jose Galindo Torres a summer VISTA at Uptown soccer discuss his experience identifying as Mexican, an athlete, a performer and a DACA recipient. To lead this conversation, we're joined by Erika Olivera-Gutierrez, an Up2Us Summer Cohort Leader, who is daughter of immigrant parents and an avid soccer player.
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