Tag: social media

• Stop Scrolling: Social Media as a Community Tool

  

  At 17, I had very important things to communicate, and I needed a community: I was away, alone in an academic institution and living with Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The news reporters were ignoring my immigrant community, chasing news-worthy leads. I had no idea my immigrant community was enduring struggle in silence, until I arrived…

  Claudia Rojas

  June 17, 2020

  Compositions

  communication, community, community building, social change, social media

• 1,000 miles: step 80

  2017 is a reading year.

  Claudia Rojas

  January 2, 2017

  1,000 miles

  Instagram, new year, reading, social media, vacation

• 1,000 miles: step 58|Speak Spanish?

  Exchange “You have a call,” the librarian tells me. I raise my eyebrow, confused. At the other end a woman’s voice thanks me for sharing my computer “knowledge,”and the conversation is over too soon. I place back the desk phone and rush over to once again meet a woman I’ve never seen before. My new student comes…

  Claudia Rojas

  February 22, 2014

  1,000 miles, Compositions

  conversations, life and experience, people, Prose, social media, Spanish, volunteer work