Katy Murdza Interview
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2023-06-06
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Institute for Diversity & Civic Life
Department of Religious Studies
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This interview is with Katy Murdza, the Texas regional organizer for the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, in Houston, TX. Katy describes her start in immigration activism during college, her work at a detention center through the Dilley Pro Bono Project, and her work with SA Stand Coalition and Houston Leads. She compares life in the places she has lived and also recalls her travels, including being in the Peace Corps in Panama. Katy describes the connections between the causes she organizes for and believes in, such as immigration reform, abolition, and transit.
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Religions Texas, Abolition, Activism, American Immigration Council, Arizona, Community, Dilley Pro Bono Project, Global politics, ICE [Immgration and Customs Enforcement], Immigrant Legal Resource Center, Immigration, Incarceration, Language, Millennials, New Hampshire, Panama, Peace Corps, Religious nones, SA Stands Immigration Coalition, Spanish, Texas, TX - Dilley, TX - Houston, TX - San Antonio, US/Mexico border, US politics