Marcela Betancur is the manager director of the Latino Policy Institute (LPI).
LPI stimulates public coverage discourse by inspecting and speaking the evolving experiences of the Latino group in Rhode Island.
I spoke with Marcela on a latest episode of Fulcrum Democracy Discussion board (FDF). This system engages residents in evolving authorities to higher meet all folks’s wants. Per the Fulcrum’s mission, FDF strives to share many views to widen our readers’ viewpoints.
“For the final 20 years, virtually, the Latino Coverage Institute has been strongly dedicated to trying on the experiences, particularly the evolving experiences of Latinos in our state,” Betancur mentioned. LPI focuses on bettering policymakers’ understanding of the group’s wants in areas together with training, financial fairness, housing, well being, and workforce improvement.
Just lately, the Latino Coverage Institute hosted Demystifying Democracy, an interactive occasion to discover ways to navigate the legislative course of. “That is our third yr in a row partnering with Widespread Trigger Rhode Island. In Demystifying Democracy we centered on how does a invoice actually change into a regulation,” Betancur mentioned. “On this session we embody reporters, legislators, and advocates to inform us just a little about what the method actually appears to be like like for them and what it could actually and may appear like for the group.
Marcela was raised in Colombia and immigrated to the U.S. at age 12. “I used to be the daughter of anyone who was an undocumented immigrant. We needed to do plans of what occurred if she had been to be deported,” she mentioned. “Right now these are the conversations we’re having with our group members. Guaranteeing that oldsters are planning.”
