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Ivone Guillen is Sojourners' Immigration Campaigns and Communications Associate. A native of Washington State, where she lived and worked amongst immigrant communities. Ivone graduated from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., in 2009 with a degree in International Studies and Spanish. After college, she worked with Tierra Vida (Land of Life) as program coordinator for C.A.S.A. and was a immigration policy fellow at Bread For The World before joining Sojourners in September.

Ivone looks forward to opportunities that continue enriching her personal and professional development as well as looks for ways in which she can continue impacting lives through the work that she does.

As she tries to be optimistic most of the time, she believes that life is an open journey and it's up to each individual to decide how much of an impact they want to leave behind.

Blog Posts by Ivone Guillen

Conservative Congressman Targets DREAMers
Posted by Ivone Guillen 1 week 5 days ago
Despite the progress on immigration reform being made in the Senate, this week offered an unfortunate reminder of the uphill battle any legislation faces in the House of Representatives.During it’s...
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Evangelicals Take to Twitter to #Pray4Reform on Immigration
Posted by Ivone Guillen 4 weeks 2 hours ago
On May 2, the Evangelical Immigration Table launched its 92 day Pray4Reform Challenge. They sent a letter to Congress challenging decision makers to pass compassionate and fair immigration...
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Sierra Club Endorses Immigration Reform
Posted by Ivone Guillen, Beau Underwood 7 weeks 1 day ago
If Congress passes immigration reform, much of the credit will be given to the broad and diverse voices that have lined up in support of fixing our nation’s broken immigration system. Both the labor...
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My DACA Story
Posted by Ivone Guillen, Lisa Sharon Harper 13 weeks 5 days ago
Introduction from Lisa Sharon Harper: Every once in a great while you meet someone who carries in their very body the scars of injustice that we talk about so much at Sojourners. These scars...
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Momentum Building on Immigration Reform
Posted by Ivone Guillen 19 weeks 3 hours ago
In case you’ve missed the news surrounding immigration reform, here’s a brief update.Last week, a bipartisan group of eight Senators unveiled a set of principles in support of immigration reform. The...
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Articles by Ivone Guillen

Work of Many Hands
May 1, 2012

When you pick an apple in the store, think of those who held it first. A day in the life of a farm worker.