Rosi Carrasco has made a home for her family in Chicago IL for the past 18 years. She came to the US to reunite her two daughters with her husband, who had taken a job in Chicago. In Mexico, Rosi workers doing education research and planning. Now she works organizing the Latino community to fight for their rights. She has seen all the obstacles her daughters have overcome to finish their studies in this country due to their immigration status, and supports their struggles and decisions as best as she can. She coordinates the Comite del Inmigrante, a group that supports work against deportations in the Chicagoladn area. She was part of the “No papers, no fear ride for justice” last summer and was part of the civil disobedience at the Democratic National Convention.