On a wall at Santa Rosa Junior College’s newly expanded Dream Center is a framed, whimsical drawing of a woman with her eyes closed and hair windswept, surrounded by dozens of monarch butterflies. Above her head, white letters read: “My dreams are not illegal.”
For many of the 1,800 students at the college who are undocumented, monarchs, which migrate thousands of miles between Mexico and Canada, symbolize hope.
“When students walk into the center, I hope that they see the empowerment and the possibilities of what life can bring to them, even sometimes when you’re in the shadows and question what you can do and how far you can go,” said Alma Valverde, who was hired last summer as the center’s coordinator.
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