About Paola Mendoza

My time spent in Kakuma Refugee Camp was life changing. I lived both ends of the emotional spectrum. I felt inspired as I met people that had overcome the impossible, but I also felt heartbreak as I heard the atrocities they had lived through. In the sea of these emotions, my partner Topaz Adizes and I […]

This Mother’s Day my heart aches for the undocumented mothers in Arizona and throughout the nation who are living the consequences of a broken immigration system and who live in fear of being separated from their families. I honor them because I know first hand that it is a mother’s resilience, which pushes and pulls […]

This Mother’s Day my heart aches for the undocumented mothers in Arizona and throughout the nation who are living the consequences of a broken immigration system and who live in fear of being separated from their families. I honor them because I know first hand that it is a mother’s resilience, which pushes and pulls […]