Miriam brings to AFSC 10 years of experience on statewide campaigns and community engagement to expand and protect health care, with a concentration on ensuring those campaigns include and center undocumented folx. She is English and Spanish bilingual and also speaks French. She is passionate about immigrant rights as a class and labor issue. As the world changes due to global warming and the imperialist project, she believes we must act out of compassion as migration will continue to rise. She feels it is a moral duty to stop the criminalization of migration. Outside of work she enjoys art, photography, cooking, and reading along with the goal of turning her home into a terrarium (she has many plants). She has a small dog, Sebastian, named after Mexican country singer Joan Sebastian, who is usually by her side. In 2013, she graduated from University of Colorado Denver with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, and double minors in Legal Studies and English Writing.