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Civic Innovator: Tania Mattos, Bolivia/United States

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Tania Mattos was watching Telemundo with her mother one day in May 2010 when she witnessed something that changed her life. On screen, four young undocumented immigrants dressed in graduation caps and gowns were being arrested during a sit-in at Arizona Republican Senator John McCain’s office in Tucson. Their fearlessness resonated with Mattos, an undocumented immigrant who left Bolivia at age four and moved with her mother and brother to Queens, New York to...

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