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Teresa Alonso Leon urges language access, higher-education fixes at Wilsonville equity series
Summary
Former Oregon state representative Teresa Alonso Leon recounted her immigrant childhood and outlined policy work on language access at the Oregon State Capitol and efforts to boost college completion for underrepresented students, including a statewide advocacy and training program now seeking foundation funding.
Teresa Alonso Leon, founder and president of Parakata Consulting LLC and a former member of the Oregon House of Representatives, spoke at a City of Wilsonville Equity & Inclusion Committee speaker series event about her immigrant childhood and her work on language access and higher-education equity.
Alonso Leon said her legislative priorities focused on making the Oregon State Capitol more accessible to non-English speakers and on policies to improve college completion rates for students of color. “We made the Capitol building a language access building,” she said, describing work to secure funding and on-site interpreters to support testimony in multiple languages.
Alonso Leon opened by describing her childhood in Michoacán and the migration that brought her to Oregon at age 4. She told the audience she was separated from her mother briefly at the border, recalled living…
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