Immigration Welcome Award Winner Fights For DACA Recipients
Nancy Ramirez-Blancas sits at her desk inside La Casa Cultural Latina on the University of Illinois Urbana campus.
Brian Moline/Illinois Public Media
The Fourth Annual Immigrant Welcome Awards Ceremony is Saturday in Urbana. They’re sponsored by the CU Immigration Forum, the cities of Champaign and Urbana, the Muslim-American Society of Urbana-Champaign, and the Urbana Free Library.
Nancy Ramirez-Blancas is receiving this year’s Student Leadership Award. She’s the president of I-CAUSE on the University of Illinois Urbana campus, which stands for Illinois Coalition Assisting Undocumented Students’ Education.
Illinois Public Media’s Brian Moline spoke with Ramirez-Blancas Thursday at her office inside La Casa Cultural Latina on the U of I campus, and asked her how it felt to receive this award.
Other Immigrant Welcome Awards recepients are:
- Samuel Smith - Humanitarian Relief Award
- Charles Larenas - Distinguished Leadership Service Award
- The Education Justice Project - Community Impact Award
- Immigration Project - Community Impact Award
- Karyl Wackerlin - Human Rights Award
