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Magaly Garcia is a Loretto Volunteer serving at the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Saint Mary's College of California with a degree in Psychology after leading the campus' Catholic Institute for Lasallian Social Action (CILSA) Social Action Leadership Team.
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Yes, Women Can Be Apostles Too
05-17-2016
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I keep finding myself repeating “it’s 2016” to my friends and family, on social media, and in my head. We read about all these things in history books that actually didn’t even happen that long ago like women “winning” the right to vote, schools being desegregated, or the first president of the United States having some melanin.