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All are welcome to this free discussion, which includes the following panelists:

Aviva Chomsy, Professor of History and Coordinator of Latin American, Latino, and Carribean Studies, Sale State University. Author of They Take Our Jobs! And 20 Other Myths About Immigration

Irma Flores, Community Engagement Specialist, City of Somerville

Jeffrey Thielman,  President and CEO, International Institute of New England; Arlington School Committee member

Erin Goodman (moderator),  Associate Director of Academic Programs, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University


Sponsored by International Institute of New England and the Arlington-Teosinte Sister City Project, with support from Centro Presente, Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA), Oxfam, and Refugee Immigration Ministry (RIM)


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