... we build power among workers of color through organizing, education, and direct action. We promote worker justice using ... our members on worker justice using a model of popular education that we’ve developed. We start by supporting our ... Our participatory action research is based on popular education practices and methodology and we map out the needs ...
May 3, 2023
GCIR Blog Series
... back home in Arizona growing up in a family with mixed immigration statuses. While working with immigrant youth in ... summer allowed me to un-learn and re-learn the history of immigration. As I helped GCIR staff develop a timeline of ... to opportunities on campus. Jaynelle believes higher education should be a right for all students regardless of ...
September 21, 2022
GCIR Staff Feature
... justice causes that demand our attention. Navigating the immigration system alongside my wife who immigrated from ... what was new was getting a close-up look at a byzantine immigration system that makes it extremely difficult for ... in children, youth, and older adults – the issue of immigration stood out to me because of the magnitude of the ...
July 13, 2022
GCIR Staff Feature
... undocumented folks from accessing health care, public education, and other services in California. It was then that ... to grasp the realities of this country’s contemporary immigration policy, the experience of being undocumented, and ... a standard Massachusetts driver's license, regardless of immigration status. Rather than implement comprehensive and ...
February 8, 2023
GCIR Board Feature
What do we hope to accomplish? What will success look like? What will it take to get there? These are some of the questions I grapple with as GCIR’s Programs Learning Manager. My position is new, reflecting the organization’s commitment to proactive learning throughout our work. In a nutshell, I aim to support the team in building evaluative capacity, including through the design (and constant iteration) of ways of working that make it easy for people to engage meaningfully in learning processes.
April 6, 2023
GCIR Staff Feature
... be guided by the input of those directly impacted by immigration in addition to the perspectives and insights of ... immigrant communities due to a lack of understanding that immigration is a cross-cutting issue which intersects with other marginalized identities and priorities like education, housing, health, and employment. Addressing this ...
July 19, 2023
Blog Post
... building, storytelling, narrative change, and public education. KH Interview Pull Quote 1.png Since 2014, ...
September 28, 2021
GCIR Blog Series
GCIR President Marissa Tirona speaks with Lian Cheun, Executive Director of Khmer Girls in Action (KGA) in Long Beach, California, an organization working for gender, racial, and economic justice through community and power building efforts led by Southeast Asian young women.
July 12, 2021
GCIR Blog Series
... support for many aspects of that agenda. As American Immigration Council ’s Jorge Loweree observed when asked about the failed bipartisan immigration deal, “Advocating for stricter immigration policy, regardless of the actual results, is just ...
March 13, 2024
President's Message
The first quarterly President Message from Marissa Tirona, GCIR President.
January 29, 2021
President's Message
... whenever someone knocked on the door in fear that it was Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). I shared the ...
January 10, 2022
GCIR Staff Feature
... interpreters, leadership development, classes for parents, immigration legal assistance, and advocacy for Indigenous ... driver’s licenses available to everyone regardless of immigration status, but many people were not able to access ...
September 6, 2022
GCIR Blog Series