In the sixth installment of Reflections: A Race Forward Podcast, recorded at the National Immigrant Integration Conference 2021, Jonathan Jayes-Green (they/them), Vice President of Programs at Marguerite Casey Foundation, tells Race Forward’s Hendel Leiva,“I know that some folks might not be as happy with us, like the fact that we, as a movement over the years, with the language that we use, through the strategies that we pursued, through the narratives that we've told, have picked winners and losers — have picked the good and the bad immigrants. Have painted a story of undocumented young people as myself as more worthy of protection than my parents and other folks who might not be as young, who might not have the same clean and perfect narrative of who we are.”
In this episode, Jonathan talks about their lived experience as an organizer at the intersections of immigration and racial justice, and the very real consequences that come from not centering the most marginalized communities in liberation work.
*Recorded after the National Immigrant Integration Conference
About, Jonathan Jayes-Green: https://bit.ly/3IrLCu2
Executive Producers: Hendel Leiva & Cheryl Cato Blakemore
Associate Producer: Kendy Solis
Produced in collaboration with the National Partnership For New Americans