When Ilse walks into a room, her confidence is contagious. Through her advocacy work, Ilse has been featured on multiple media outlets, represented victims of crimes in Southern Florida, spoken at Harvard Law School, and worked on the 2020 Biden-Harris Presidential campaign.
In this episode, Ilse talks about the heroes that inspire her, cultivating community online during her law school application journey, meeting Tania in the YouTube comments section, and the effects of online visibility as a DACA recipient.
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The most interesting people on Ilse’s timeline:
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Timecodes:
(1:11) Intro to Ilse and how Tania and Ilse met
(5:30) Ilse’s Law School application journey
(11:00) Meeting Sonia Sotomayor and Bambadjan Bamba
(15:15) The Biden-Harris campaign and Telemundo
(22:05) Visibility in the Digital Space as a DACA recipient
(28:50) Reflecting on sharing her story publicly
(36:27) The most interesting people on Ilse’s timeline
(38:30) Waiting for law school decisions and where she can be found online
(40:39) Outro
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