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<div><p><em>Colorado Law professor Helen Norton, author of the new book </em>The Government鈥檚 Speech and the Constitution<em>, examines the nature, complexities and limits of government expression 鈥� including whether the president may block you on Twitter.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Could you define 鈥榞overnment speech鈥�?</strong></p>
<p>When I talk about the government鈥檚 speech, I鈥檓 referring to the speech of a governmental body like an agency or a legislature 鈥� think of the surgeon general鈥檚 report on tobacco or a congressional committee report 鈥� and the speech of an individual who speaks when backed by the government鈥檚 power, like the attorney general announcing official policy or a police officer interrogating a suspect.</p>
<p><strong>What鈥檚 the difference between the government鈥檚 free speech right and an individual citizen鈥檚? </strong></p>
<p>The First Amendment gives each of us the right to be free from the government鈥檚 unjustified interference with our speech. But because governments have to speak in order to govern, the First Amendment doesn鈥檛 forbid the government from speaking on its own behalf 鈥� from expressing its own views.</p>
<p>This explains why tobacco companies don鈥檛 have a First Amendment right to force the surgeon general to deliver their opinions on the benefits of cigarettes, and why the President鈥檚 critics don鈥檛 have a First Amendment right to share the podium at the State of the Union address. What the First Amendment protects is dissenting speakers鈥� freedom to write their own reports and hold their own press conferences.</p>
<p><strong>Are there any unambiguous legal restraints on government speech?</strong></p>
<p>Think of government threats that silence dissenters as effectively jailing them, or government lies that pressure targets into relinquishing their constitutional rights as effectively denying those rights. When the government鈥檚 speech inflicts those sorts of injuries, it violates specific constitutional rights.</p>
<p>But difficult questions arise when we disagree 鈥� and often we do 鈥� about whether the government鈥檚 speech has actually caused those harms.</p>
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<p><strong>Is there a distinction between 鈥榯he government鈥� and individual government leaders?</strong></p>
<p>Often it鈥檚 clear when individual government officials speak for the government rather than in their capacity as private citizens 鈥� for example, when they issue press releases on government letterhead or otherwise specifically invoke their governmental power. On the other hand, government officials can and do speak as private citizens when they speak on matters unrelated to their governmental position 鈥� think, for instance, of a government official鈥檚 social media platform devoted to her thoughts about soccer or her summer reading list.</p>
<p><strong>In your book, you note many examples of speech by U.S. presidents, including President Trump鈥檚 tweets. Does a U.S. president using his official Twitter account have the right to block a U.S. citizen from viewing his messages? </strong></p>
<p>Not if he does so simply because he disagrees with them.</p>
<p>When a government official conducts official business on Twitter or other social media platforms, he is speaking as the government. This means his critics don鈥檛 have a First Amendment right to stop him from tweeting or to change his tweets to their liking 鈥� just as they have no First Amendment right to grab his microphone at a public speech.</p>
<p>But when a government official chooses to speak to the public about the government鈥檚 work through platforms like Twitter that permit the public鈥檚 commentary, the First Amendment forbids the government from excluding members of the public just because the government doesn鈥檛 like their views.</p>
<p><strong>Are you following any interesting government speech cases?</strong></p>
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<p>A federal appellate court in July issued an opinion in Knight First Amendment Institute v. Trump, which involves the issues you raised in your last question. The bottom line is that the court correctly recognized that the First Amendment allows the government to speak to us, including through social media, but denies the government the power to silence or punish our dissent. This case gave the court the chance to remind government officials about the constitutional consequences of their expressive choices.</p>
<p><strong>What got you thinking deeply about government speech? </strong></p>
<p>I helped lead the Department of Justice鈥檚 Civil Rights Division during the Clinton administration, so I have some experience with the issues that arise when speaking for the government. After I entered academia, my early work in this area focused on the value of the government鈥檚 speech so long as its governmental source is made clear. As the years passed, I also became interested in the dark side of the government鈥檚 speech 鈥� the government鈥檚 destructive expressive choices. This led me to wonder whether and when the Constitution limits the government鈥檚 speech.</p>
<p><strong>I hear you鈥檙e a volunteer firefighter as well as a law professor.</strong></p>
<p>Shortly after my husband and I moved to the mountains, nearly 10 years ago, we were evacuated for the Four Mile Fire. Our neighbor, a volunteer firefighter, helped keep our home safe while we were gone, and we wanted to pay it forward. I never expected to become a firefighter in my middle years, but I鈥檝e learned a lot, and I鈥檝e seen and done things I never expected to see or do.</p>
<p><strong>What do you make of the U.S. Forest Service鈥檚 Smokey Bear campaign? </strong></p>
<p>The Smokey Bear campaign is one of the longest-running and arguably most effective examples of government speech of all time. Through Smokey, the Forest Service tells us that 鈥渙nly you can prevent wildfires鈥� 鈥� and nobody wants to disappoint Smokey!</p>
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<p>Teresa DeAnda near her home in Earlimart, Calif., where a pesticide drift incident sickened more than 250 people.</p>
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<p class="hero">Low-income and minority families still bear the brunt of toxic pollutants. Jill Harrison wants to know why.</p>
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<p>Teresa DeAnda had just gathered her family for dinner in the backyard of her modest home in California鈥檚 Central Valley when her eyes and throat began to burn.</p>
<p>At first, she joked that her homemade salsa must be too spicy.</p>
<p>Then things took a serious turn.</p>
<p>All across the dusty farm community of Earlimart, residents began to fall ill that warm evening in November 1999. Some vomited or felt short of breath. Many called 911.</p>
<p>鈥淧eople were scared,鈥� said 精品SM在线影片 sociologist Jill Harrison. 鈥淣o one knew what was happening.鈥�</p>
<p>By the time Harrison interviewed DeAnda two years later as part of her doctoral research, the mystery had been solved: Earlimart residents, including DeAnda, had been exposed to a toxic fog of metam sodium, an agricultural pesticide that had drifted into town after application on a nearby field. Ever since, the working-class, largely Latino community had been afflicted by a wave of miscarriages, cancer diagnoses, asthma and birth defects.</p>
<p>While it鈥檚 impossible to say how much that night鈥檚 exposure contributed to these health outcomes, DeAnda herself ultimately died, at age 55, of liver cancer.</p>
<p>鈥淭hat experience really changed me,鈥� said Harrison, looking at a photo of herself and DeAnda. 鈥淚t made me realize that, not withstanding all the accomplishments made in terms of wilderness protection and improving air and water quality, there are still massive pockets of extraordinary environmental harm persisting in the United States. And race and class play a huge part in that.鈥�</p>
<p>Since then, Harrison has traveled the country interviewing regulators, environmental justice workers, activists and industry stakeholders, asking this: Why, as the broader environmental movement has flourished, do people of color and the poor still face disproportionate exposure to environmental hazards?</p>
<p>Some people point fingers at industry. Others blame anti-regulatory conservatives.</p>
<p>Through her research, Harrison 鈥� who studies the cultural roots of environmental inequality 鈥� has pulled the curtain back on an uncomfortable truth: Well-meaning progressives working to solve environmental problems sometimes overlook, even exacerbate, the unique challenges facing vulnerable communities.</p>
<p>鈥淎 lot of people are trying to do the right thing for the environment,鈥� she said. 鈥淏ut sometimes doing the right thing for you doesn鈥檛 necessarily help those most affected by the problem.鈥�</p>
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<h3>Warren County to Flint</h3>
<p>In 1994, President Bill Clinton took an important step toward environmental justice by signing an executive order instructing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to implement policies to 鈥渁chieve environmental protection for all communities.鈥�</p>
<p>By then, people of color had been fighting for this for decades.</p>
<p>In an iconic 1982 battle, Warren County, N.C., residents lay down in front of a line of dump trucks delivering 60,000 tons of contaminated soil to the edge of a local neighborhood. Years earlier, truckers had been caught unlawfully disposing of oil laden with highly toxic polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs), dumping it along the side of North Carolina highways. The state, with the EPA鈥檚 blessing, devised a plan to scrape it up and create a special landfill for it. Warren County residents saw it as no coincidence that their mostly black community, the poorest in the state, was selected for the site.</p>
<p>When the trucks arrived in September 1982, they met with hundreds of protesters. The delivery went ahead 鈥� but the protesters birthed a movement.</p>
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<p>Yet, Harrison said, environmental racism persists.</p>
<p>In 2014, news broke that residents of Flint, Mich., 鈥� which is mostly black and largely poor 鈥� had lead-contaminated drinking water.</p>
<p>In 2016, protesters showed up in force in Western North Dakota to decry the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline, which Native Americans viewed as a threat to their ancient burial grounds and water supplies.</p>
<p>More recently, studies have shown that Hispanics experience double the exposure to industrial chemicals like chlorine than whites do, and Latino school children are twice as likely as whites to go to schools near heavy pesticide use.</p>
<p>In 2018, the EPA鈥檚 National Center for Environmental Assessment published a study showing that poor people and people of color are exposed to as much as 1.5 times more airborne pollutants, often from factories, than their white counterparts.</p>
<p>鈥淭here has been a lot of attention paid to recycling and saving the redwoods,鈥� Harrison said. 鈥淏ut the lived experiences of Indigenous people, people of color, and those who live in poverty have not been a focus of the broader environmental movement. I want to honor the good work that鈥檚 been done by the environmental movement while pointing out the gaps.鈥�</p>
<p class="hero">鈥淭he lived experiences of Indigenous people, people of color, and those who live in poverty have not been a focus of the broader environmental movement.鈥�</p>
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<h3>Trouble at Home</h3>
<p>Harrison grew up in a middle-class white family in Southern California in the 1980s. As an undergraduate in development studies at the University of California-Berkeley, she initially set her sights on addressing social inequalities in Central America. Then she heard about pesticide drift.</p>
<p>鈥淢y attention had been so focused on other countries that I hadn鈥檛 even considered the inequality and suffering going on in my own state,鈥� she said.</p>
<p>During her first interviews with DeAnda, a non-confrontational mother-and-grandmother-turned-environmental activist, Harrison listened in disbelief about that day in 1999.</p>
<p>A nearby farm had used sprinklers to douse the ground with the legal but toxic fumigant, assuming it would soak in. But the day was warmer and windier than expected. A tainted fog began to lift and drift.</p>
<p>At least 250 residents fell ill. Dozens went to the hospital, racking up bills that would take years to pay.</p>
<p>Some, including children and elderly women, were rounded up by emergency responders, taken to a school playground, told to strip down to their undergarments and hosed down before TV cameras.</p>
<p>California fined the applicator $150,000. Metam sodium remains in use today.</p>
<p>鈥淭his never would have happened this way in Beverly Hills,鈥� said Harrison.</p>
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<h3>Justice Redefined</h3>
<p>While environmentalists concerned about pesticides often prioritize buying and eating organically grown food (which is grown without pesticides but involves only about 1% of farmland), this step alone has done little to help low-income agricultural communities like Earlimart avoid pesticide drift, Harrison鈥檚 research suggests.</p>
<p>She advocates for pesticide buffer zones around schools and neighborhoods, greater restrictions on which pesticides can be used and how, and providing farm neighbors with drift catchers, small devices for monitoring the air for pesticide residue.</p>
<p>鈥淛ill seems to be the only person studying this at all. Period,鈥� said Emily Marquez, a staff scientist with the Berkeley-based Pesticide Action Network, which works to counter pesticide drift. 鈥淭hese frontline communities already know they鈥檙e being poisoned, but the general public isn鈥檛 aware.鈥�</p>
<p>As far as other pollutants go, Harrison believes that, first and foremost, existing regulations should be strengthened to reduce the amount of environmental hazards in use. Regulations could also be more evenly enforced, assuring that industries in underprivileged areas are monitored and penalized as severely as those in affluent communities. And new regulations could make it harder for new polluters to move into places already overburdened with them.</p>
<p>And, as Harrison discusses in her new book, <em>From the Inside Out: The Fight for Environmental Justice Within Government Agencies</em>, the culture inside environmental regulatory agencies could be improved.</p>
<p>鈥淪taff who have been tasked with trying to roll out environmental justice reforms face a lot of push-back from their own coworkers and, importantly, this pushback endures from one administration to the next,鈥� said Harrison, who over the past eight years interviewed nearly 100 state and federal environmental regulatory agency employees.</p>
<p>Staff tasked with leading environmental justice reforms told her stories of eye-rolls and disinterest, and of complaints that considering environmental justice issues meant 鈥渏ust another box to check.鈥�</p>
<p>鈥淲e need to reform regulatory practice so that reducing environmental inequalities is a top priority of government agencies,鈥� Harrison said.</p>
<p>Government reform aside, she hopes her work will help people look beyond their own grocery cart or recycling bin, and reframe their notion of a 鈥渉ealthy environment.鈥�</p>
<p>鈥淓nvironmental justice requires fighting for things that might not benefit you directly,鈥� she said, 鈥渁nd caring about people who live in places that might be very different from where you live.鈥�</p>
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<p>As a Colorado public defender and private criminal defense attorney for 35 years,<strong> Jeanne Winer</strong> (Engl鈥�72; Law鈥�77) was not afraid to take the difficult cases.<br>
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鈥淚t didn鈥檛 matter what crime they committed, it was my job to make their lives better one way or another,鈥� said Winer, of Boulder.<br>
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When she lost her first case as a public defender in Jefferson County, she sobbed in the bathroom. The client, who struggled with multiple personality disorder, was sentenced to years in prison for serial rape.<br>
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鈥淚t was my first really big case, and even though he had done horrible, horrible things, I still felt like I had failed him,鈥� Winer said.<br>
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A lifelong political activist who grew up in Boston, her tireless advocacy for the voiceless led her to law school.<br>
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鈥淚 spent most of my free time protesting against the Vietnam War, and then for women鈥檚 civil and reproductive rights, then gay and lesbian liberation,鈥� she said.<br>
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Winer received the Dan Bradley Award from the National LGBT Bar Association in 1996 for her trial work in Romer v. Evans, a landmark civil rights case that preceded and paved the way for the U.S. Supreme Court鈥檚 2015 Obergefell decision, which legalized same-sex marriage throughout the United States.<br>
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鈥�<em>Romer</em> was a huge win,鈥� said Winer, who has been with her partner for 20 years. 鈥淚 was deliriously happy. I was one of the few 鈥榦ut鈥� lesbians on the legal team. So I really felt the pressure."<br>
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Life as a defense lawyer took its toll. Martial arts became a lifeline. She now holds a third-degree black belt in tae kwon do.<br>
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鈥淚t was a way for me to get into my body and out of my head,鈥� she said. 鈥淚t became the greatest love of my life.鈥�<br>
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Writing has also helped her decompress. Last year, she published her second novel, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Her-Kind-Case-Isaacs-Novel/dp/1610882288" rel="nofollow">Her Kind of Case</a>, a legal drama that centers on a female defense attorney on the cusp of 60 who represents a young man accused of helping kill a gay gang member.<br>
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鈥淚t鈥檚 one of the ways that I can escape into an alternative reality,鈥� she said. 鈥淎 reality that is happening in a different time.鈥�<br>
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She says that women鈥檚 and gay rights have come a long way in the United States, but since the 2016 election, it鈥檚 been hard for her to stay positive. 鈥淓verything we worked so long on can disappear in an instant. It鈥檚 hard to come to terms with that reality.鈥�<br>
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<p class="hero">Former 精品SM在线影片 student body president Joe Neguse made a name for himself in Colorado. Now he鈥檚 doing it in Washington, D.C.</p>
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<p>There he is with Nancy Pelosi in the House Chamber. There he is making phone calls with Joe Biden. There he is addressing the press, Bernie Sanders behind one shoulder, Cory Booker behind the other.<br>
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That鈥檚 him on C-Span, CNN and CBS鈥� 鈥淔ace the Nation.鈥�<br>
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Former 精品SM在线影片 student body president <strong>Joe Neguse</strong> (Econ, PolSci鈥�05; Law鈥�09) made a name for himself in Colorado. Now he鈥檚 doing it in Washington, D.C.<br>
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In November the one-time Baker Hall resident was handily elected to Congress from Colorado鈥檚 2nd District, which includes Boulder, becoming the first CU graduate to represent the university鈥檚 hometown in the House of Representatives since 1975 and the first African-American elected to Congress from any part of Colorado.<br>
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Neguse, 34, hadn鈥檛 been sworn in yet when he emerged as a prominent member of Congress鈥� incoming class, the most demographically diverse in the nation鈥檚 history. Within weeks of the Nov. 6 election, he was elected to the House Democratic leadership as co-freshman representative. Soon afterward, he was asked to deliver the party鈥檚 final weekly address of 2018.<br>
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Since taking office Jan. 3, Neguse has won seats on the House Judiciary and Natural Resources committees, the latter of particular interest to Colorado, given its influence over policy affecting public lands, outdoor recreation and wildlife. As of late January, he had introduced more bills than any freshman member of the 116th Congress.<br>
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No one who knows him is surprised.<br>
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鈥淵ou never saw him wasting time,鈥� said <strong>Steve Fenberg</strong> (EnvSt鈥�06), majority leader of the Colorado State Senate, recalling his days with Neguse at CU, where they became close. 鈥淗e was always doing something in service of his goals.鈥�</p>
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<p>The son of Eritrean refugees and a self-described 鈥渆ternal optimist,鈥� Neguse has been on an upward trajectory in public life since his teens.<br>
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Born in California and raised in Highlands Ranch, Colo., he arrived at CU as a freshman in August 2002 with an impulse toward 鈥渃ivic activism,鈥� he said in a January interview with the <em>Coloradan</em>.<br>
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He made connections in student government, worked on projects related to diversity, affordability and higher education finance, and eventually became a tri-executive, or co-president. He campaigned for statewide ballot measures and served as a Boulder Housing Authority commissioner, a city council-appointed post, while earning a reputation as a thorough student with a sense of humor and authentic humility.<br>
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Amid all that, Neguse managed to hold down a job at the CU Rec Center, find time for intramural basketball, write an honors thesis about failing nation-states and graduate from CU a semester early with two majors and summa cum laude honors.<br>
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鈥淚 distinctly remember him coming in one week having consulted sources tracing back in African history to the 15th century,鈥� said CU political scientist David S. Brown, who led Neguse鈥檚 honors thesis committee (and whom Neguse credits with 鈥渁 profound impact on my career鈥�). 鈥淗e uncovered pre-colonial trade routes to help explain why certain countries were able to maintain fairly stable exchange rates, a key government responsibility that is usually beyond the ability of most failed states.鈥�<br>
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Brown added: 鈥淚 feel honored that Joe regards me as a mentor, but I know better 鈥� I鈥檝e always been the one learning from him.鈥�<br>
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Between Neguse鈥檚 December 2005 graduation and his return to CU for law school (where he would be elected class president), he worked for Andrew Romanoff, then speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives, and co-founded New Era Colorado, a nonprofit foundation that promotes civic engagement among young people through voter-registration drives and leadership training.<br>
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By 2008, according to the Denver Post, Romanoff was already joking that 鈥渙ne day we will all be working for Joe.鈥�<br>
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That was the year Neguse, then 24 and still in law school, won election to the CU Board of Regents, which governs all four CU campuses. Among the youngest Regents ever, he served six years, representing the district he now serves in Congress.<br>
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In the years to come, Neguse would join one of Denver鈥檚 oldest law firms, Holland & Hart, run for Colorado Secretary of State, fall short, and join then-Gov. John Hickenlooper鈥檚 cabinet as executive director of the state鈥檚 consumer protection agency.<br>
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In June 2017, just after Jared Polis, now governor, announced he would seek that office instead of a sixth term in Congress, Neguse said he would run for the seat. Now he鈥檚 a sitting member of the House of Representatives, serving alongside an unprecedented number of women, the first Muslim and Native American women and the youngest congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, 29.<br>
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Neguse鈥檚 background gives his arrival as a major Colorado public figure a quintessentially American cast.<br>
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Born in the U.S. to immigrant parents who fled chaos in Eritrea in the 1980s, he grew up in Highlands Ranch and attended ThunderRidge High School. His parents, Debesai and Azeib Neguse, put themselves through school and raised Neguse and his sister, Sarah, with an appreciation for opportunity.<br>
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鈥淚 reflect a great deal on their journey,鈥� said Neguse, whose parents, wife <strong>Andrea</strong> (Jour鈥�11) and infant daughter Natalie attended his swearing-in. 鈥淚t鈥檚 never too far from my mind.鈥�
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<p>His early weeks in the capital were predictably busy.<br>
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Neguse set up shop in the Longworth House Office Building, began hiring staff, including district director and deputy chief of staff <strong>Sally Anderson</strong> (IntlAf鈥�12), gave his first speech on the House floor and held town hall meetings in Estes Park, Fort Collins and Broomfield. He participated in efforts to end the 35-day government shutdown, introduced a flurry of bills 鈥� and spent a lot of time in the air. By his count, he took 10 flights in his first month in office.<br>
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During a mid-January return to Colorado, he came to CU for a ceremonial second swearing-in at Colorado Law. His former professor Melissa Hart, now a state Supreme Court justice, administered the oath in Wittemyer Courtroom before an assembly that included Polis and former Colorado Law Dean Phil Weiser, now the state attorney general.<br>
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In brief remarks, Hart recalled that Neguse鈥檚 first law school class was the opening session of her civil procedure course. When she entered the room, she said, she noticed one student had the attention of most of the others.<br>
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<p class="hero text-align-center">"Exactly the kind of person you might want as your Congressman."</p>
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<p>Describing Neguse as smart, funny, collaborative and 鈥渆xtremely kind,鈥� she called him 鈥渆xactly the kind of person you might want as your Congressman,鈥� regardless of party affiliation.<br>
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Neguse鈥檚 early priorities in Washington have included public lands protection, voting rights, climate change, prescription drug costs, gun safety and immigration.<br>
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Higher education is on his agenda, too.<br>
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Well versed in the challenges facing colleges and universities from his years as a regent, Neguse said he was preparing legislation that would make it easier for students to transfer credits between two- and four-year schools, and is looking at ways to lower textbook costs.<br>
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He also plans to advocate, as he has since he was a student, for greater access to financial support for public higher education.<br>
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Constituents passing through Washington should feel at ease relaying their priorities in person: Beneath his office nameplate, Neguse has posted a sign that reads, 鈥淭his office belongs to the people of 2nd Congressional district of Colorado.鈥�</p>
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<em>In our print edition, this story appears under the title "The Congressman." Comment on this story? Email editor@colorado.edu.</em><br>
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<div><p class="hero">Meet CU's first Rhodes Scholar in a quarter century. She's got her sights set on a U.S. Supreme Court seat鈥� and a Miss America title.</p><hr><p><strong>Serene Singh</strong> had been a Rhodes Scholar for less than 48 hours last November when she boarded a flight for Southern California. She had a contest to get to, National American Miss, the nation鈥檚 biggest youth beauty pageant.<br><br>Rhodes Scholars are rare enough 鈥� Singh, a 精品SM在线影片 senior, is one of 32 from the U.S. in the latest crop and CU鈥檚 first winner in 25 years. Rhodes Scholars also aiming to be Miss America were perhaps unheard of until now.<br><br>But Singh (Jour, PolSci鈥�19), a bhangra-dancing, snowboarding Boettcher Scholar from Colorado Springs with a 3.98 GPA, isn鈥檛 shy about the diversity of her ambitions, or much else, for that matter.<br><br>鈥淭here鈥檚 no class in confidence,鈥� she recently told a Denver audience of about 750 CU alumni and friends while dressed in a bright yellow jumpsuit 鈥� you have it, or you build it.<br><br>The former Miss Colorado Teen and America鈥檚 Junior Miss said pageant competition has helped her cultivate presence, poise and a sense of her 鈥渙wn unique beauty.鈥�<br><br>To pageant skeptics (she once was one), Singh says she skips bathing suit contests. But she doesn鈥檛 scoff at contestants who find confidence through them: 鈥淚 say to those women, I think they should do it shamelessly. I applaud them for being bold.鈥�<br><br> </p>
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<p>At 22, Singh has done a lot.<br><br>A champion debater, member of CU鈥檚 Presidents Leadership Class and chief justice of CU鈥檚 student government, she鈥檚 also a classic activator: She founded CU鈥檚 Sikh Student Association, the National Sikh Youth Program and the Serenity Project, a nonprofit group devoted to empowering marginalized women.<br> </p><p class="text-align-center hero">There鈥檚 no class in confidence, said Singh 鈥� you have it, or you build it.</p><hr><p>Last spring, mere months before she became CU鈥檚 first woman Rhodes Scholar, she won a Truman Scholarship, which provides $30,000 awards for young people invested in public service and access to an alumni network rivaling the Rhodes鈥�.<br><br>Last summer, after spending part of it as an Obama Foundation intern in Washington, she returned to campus and resumed the presidency of both CU鈥檚 Sikh Student Association and the political science honors society 鈥� all while leading the Colorado Bhangra Team, a competitive Punjabi dance squad. 精品SM在线影片鈥檚 team, part of the statewide team, numbers about 30, she said, mostly non-Indians.<br><br>Singh, who grew up in a Sikh family, was also preparing to undertake an honors thesis about public perception of Sikhs in the U.S., tackling two majors and stopping nearly every dog she saw for a pet and a selfie.<br><br>鈥淚鈥檝e got about 400 now,鈥� she said, presumably including her own chihuahua, Betta (鈥渃hild,鈥� in Hindi).<br><br>After commencement in May, the Rhodes Scholarship will take her to England for all-expenses-paid graduate study at the University of Oxford. There she鈥檒l follow in the footsteps of many prominent Americans, including Rhodes alumni Bill Clinton, Rachel Maddow and U.S. Supreme Court Justice <strong>Byron White</strong> (Econ鈥�38).<br><br>In all, 20 精品SM在线影片 alumni have won the Rhodes since it was established in 1902. Before Singh, the last CU Buff Rhodes Scholar was <strong>Jim Hansen</strong> (Engr鈥�92; MAeroEngr鈥�93), in 1993. The former CU football captain later earned an Oxford Ph.D. Today he is superintendent of the Naval Research Laboratory鈥檚 Marine Meteorology Division.<br><br>Worldwide, there were 100 new Rhodes Scholars in 2018. Of the U.S. contingent, 21 were women, the most ever. Besides Singh, 精品SM在线影片鈥檚 <strong>Nikki van den Heever</strong> (CivEngr鈥�17; MEngr鈥�19) made the final round.</p></div>
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<div><p>At Oxford, Singh plans to study public policy, criminology and criminal justice, preparation for law school in the United States. Her long-term ambition, she said, is a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.<br><br>鈥淧eople often hold themselves back through their own fear or self-doubt,鈥� said Ross Taylor of CU鈥檚 College of Media, Communications and Information, who has taught Singh in several courses. 鈥淪erene may have doubt, but she overcomes it and is fearless.鈥�<br> </p><p class="text-align-center hero">鈥淭here鈥檚 no dull at all in bhangra,鈥� Singh said, noting it means 鈥榠ntoxicated with joy.鈥� 鈥淚 think life should be lived like that, too.鈥�</p><hr><p>Before Singh leaves for the U.K., she鈥檚 got half a semester to enjoy at CU still, plus a running list of off-campus projects and adventures in mind.<br><br>She鈥檒l wrap up the thesis, finalize plans for life overseas and convene with her Truman Scholar class in Washington. She wants to skydive, visit Hanging Lake near Glenwood Springs, see the world鈥檚 biggest collection of keys, stage a fashion show for the Serenity Project and leave the National Sikh Youth Program in trusted hands.<br><br>If it seems like Singh rarely rests, you鈥檙e onto something.<br><br>鈥淚 could do a much better job,鈥� she said.<br><br>So, she dances whenever she gets a chance, even if it鈥檚 just a few steps on the way to class 鈥� ballet, hip-hop, bhangra.<br><br>It energizes her.<br><br>鈥淭here鈥檚 no dull at all in bhangra,鈥� she said, noting it means 鈥榠ntoxicated with joy.鈥� 鈥淚 think life should be lived like that, too.鈥�<br><br><br><em>In our print edition, this story appears under the title "Oxford Bound."</em><br><em>Comment on this story? Email </em><a href="mailto:editor@colorado.edu" rel="nofollow"><em>editor@colorado.edu</em></a><em>.</em><br><br>Photos by <strong>Glenn Asakawa</strong> (Journ'86). To view more outtakes of our cover, click <a href="/coloradan/2019/02/22/dancing-serene-singh" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p></div>
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<div><p>Last April, when <strong>Corey Cappelloni</strong> (Law鈥�04) stepped up to the starting line of the Marathon des Sables 鈥� a six-day, 156-mile ultra marathon through the heart of the Sahara Desert 鈥� his mind was calm.</p>
<p>鈥淟ife became very simple at that point. No email, no texting, no deadlines... All I had to do was put one foot in front of the other,鈥� said the asylum officer with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.</p>
<p>He鈥檇 run ultra marathons before 鈥� but never in the world鈥檚 largest hot desert, a race the Discovery Channel has dubbed 鈥渢he toughest footrace on Earth.鈥�</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><span>Organizers provide water refills every 10 miles and open tents to sleep in</span>, but little else. Runners carry all their own survival supplies, including anti-venom kits.</p>
<p>鈥淚nitially, I was totally intimidated by the idea of the race,鈥� said Cappelloni, one of nearly 1,000 participants from 60 countries in the latest event.</p>
<p>He鈥檇 signed up in 2015, then dropped out after contracting typhoid fever and a stomach parasite during a work trip in Tanzania. In 2016, he still didn鈥檛 feel ready.</p>
<p>Finishing the 2017 Half Marathon des Sables, a 70-mile race on an island off the Moroccan coast, gave him confidence. The first American to finish, he placed 31st overall.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>鈥淭hen I was kinda like, 鈥業 can do this,鈥� said Cappelloni, who trained in winter garb with a backpack full of Colorado Law books.</span></p>
<p>But four months before the Sahara race, Cappelloni hurt his hip, losing six weeks of training time. </p>
<p>鈥淚 went from running nearly 90 miles a week to not being able to walk the four blocks to the metro,鈥� he said.</p>
<p>Cappelloni considered dropping out again, but Jay Batchen, the race鈥檚 North American representative, convinced him not to.</p>
<p>鈥淚t was too late to get a refund, so I just told him to go for it,鈥� said Batchen, who has finished the race 13 times.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>鈥淚t鈥檚 a life changing experience...you really can鈥檛 explain it, you just have to experience it. People do the race because it鈥檚 very different than everyday life. It takes you out of your comfort zone. Of course, you have to be a little crazy, too,鈥� he said. </span></p>
<p>Turns out, Cappelloni鈥檚 hip injury wasn鈥檛 the thing to worry about. </p>
<p>Thirty-five miles into the race鈥檚 fourth day, his right leg began to hurt. When he arrived at camp, quarter-sized blisters engulfed his feet. </p>
<p>He was in agony and too tired to open his backpack for food.</p>
<p>Then a race organizer handed him a letter.</p>
<p>The fine white paper seemed strange in his hands, a foreign object in the middle of one of the world鈥檚 largest deserts. It was from his 9-year-old daughter, Emma. 鈥淗appy Birthday, Papa!鈥� it read.</p>
<p>The next day, Cappelloni could barely walk. The medics said it was most likely a stress fracture.</p>
<p>For 26 grueling miles, he limped through the sprawling desert, pain pulsing with every step.</p>
<p>He thought about the unthinkable distances refugees travel when forced to flee their homes, often over inhospitable terrain with all they can carry on their backs.<br>
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鈥淚 knew I could keep going,鈥� he said.<br>
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<p class="lead">America鈥檚 first president brewed his own beer. Travis Rupp wants you to be able to taste it.</p>
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<p>For anyone who鈥檚 ever wanted to share a cold one with George Washington, <strong>Travis Rupp</strong> (MClass鈥�10) has you covered. Or will soon, anyway.<br>
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Rupp, who sports a short beard and a laid-back vibe, represents a uniquely Boulder double threat: The 精品SM在线影片 classics lecturer is also the official 鈥渂eer archaeologist鈥� for a local brewer, Avery Brewing Company.<br>
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In this second role, Rupp draws on his training as a historian steeped in classical Greek and Roman culture to bring ancient beers back to life. He鈥檚 researched and recreated the favorite drink of an Akkadian king who ruled around 1750 B.C. The result is Avery鈥檚 Beersheba, a light beer flavored with pomegranate.<br>
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He also brewed Ragnarsdrapa, a darker ale associated with the Vikings.<br>
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Now Rupp has set his sights on reproducing a concoction that, for him, is practically modern history: The porter that America鈥檚 first president brewed at Mount Vernon, his Virginia estate.<br>
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The project has sent Rupp east to pore through the founding father鈥檚 journals and to explore the central role beer played in Colonial America.<br>
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Rupp, who expects the project to take months, readily admits he has no idea how it will turn out.<br>
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鈥淧eople still to this day ask me, 鈥楧o you know what your new beer is going to taste like?鈥欌€� he said. 鈥淥f course, I don鈥檛. These ancient beers had weird stuff in them.鈥�<br>
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Still, he said, even an approximation offers a vivid sense of our shared past.</p>
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<p>In the early United States, beer was the drink of rich and poor alike. In Washington鈥檚 heyday, ale was everywhere 鈥� made mostly in the home, but also in big-city breweries in New York and Philadelphia.<br>
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Beer was such an important part of American life, Rupp said, that it may have contributed to James Madison鈥檚 1777 loss in his first campaign to be a Virginia House delegate. The future father of the Constitution refused to give free alcohol to would-be voters. His opponent 鈥� coincidentally named Charles Porter 鈥� had no such scruples: 鈥淧orter handed out porter,鈥� Rupp said.<br>
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Washington himself likely brewed two beers on his estate, Rupp said: A porter, which may have been dark and a bit sour, and a lighter ale called a 鈥渟mall beer.鈥�</p>
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<p>One guest at Washington鈥檚 presidential dinners reported that he kept a 鈥渟ilver pint cup or mug of beer鈥� next to his plate at dinner.<br>
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To refill that cup, Rupp has become a detective.<br>
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Judging from Washington鈥檚 diligent notes, he said, the founding father鈥檚 porter was likely made from dark malts, whole-cone hops and molasses.<br>
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鈥淏ut he doesn鈥檛 give quantities for his recipes,鈥� Rupp said. 鈥淥ften, he鈥檒l write something like 鈥榝ill the sieve basket with hops.鈥� Well, how much hops does the sieve basket hold? How big is it?鈥�<br>
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So, Rupp is examining a wide range of documents from the Mount Vernon library and elsewhere in the Mid-Atlantic. Purchasing records, for example, could indicate ingredient ratios. He鈥檒l also take a close look at the equipment used by colonial brewers.<br>
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Rupp knows his porter (or small beer, if he starts with that) will never perfectly match Washington鈥檚. But he hopes he鈥檒l get close enough for modern Americans to gain a better appreciation of Washington as a person.<br>
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鈥淲hat Travis is doing is a sort of experiment of what the ancient world could have been like,鈥� said 精品SM在线影片 classics professor Dimitri Nakassis, referring to Rupp鈥檚 broader project. 鈥淲e have to do that kind of stuff if we want to understand these people and the richness of their lives.鈥�<br>
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Whether you鈥檙e George Washington or a 21st-century Boulderite, Rupp said, one time-honored way to connect with other people is to share a pint.<br>
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鈥淚t turns us into social beings,鈥� he said. 鈥淚t makes us human.鈥�<br>
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<p>鈥淥h? I thought I was!鈥� Castro said.</p>
<p>Huddleston (IntlAf鈥�64) 鈥� the top U.S. diplomat in Cuba from 1999 to 2002 鈥� held the position at a time when few women held a comparable rank. And despite Castro鈥檚 initial condescension, she found that being a woman was to her advantage.</p>
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<p>鈥淚 felt I was more personally involved with the Cuban people and Fidel Castro, because Castro liked women,鈥� she said over the summer from her home in Santa Fe, N.M.</p>
<p>In a distinguished diplomatic career that began in 1976, following service in the Peace Corps in Peru, Huddleston served not only in Cuba 鈥� the main subject of her recent memoir, Our Woman in Havana 鈥� but also as U.S. ambassador to Madagascar and Mali.</p>
<p>The book explores the tense history of U.S.-Cuba relations while recounting rich anecdotes from her own experience 鈥� of the saga of Elian Gonzalez, the 5-year-old Cuban boy who was the subject of a fierce international custody battle, of the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks and of Fidel Castro himself.</p>
<p>It also clarifies why Huddleston felt being a woman was helpful.</p>
<p>As head of the U.S. Interests Section, she implemented programs intended to empower the Cuban people to engage with the wider world. She and her staff provided access to uncensored devices and information by handing out books and portable radios. They also hosted dissidents in their homes to help activists make connections.</p>
<p>鈥淎 male ambassador would not have done what I did,鈥� Huddleston said. 鈥淚 think in a way it would have been beneath him to be handing out radios.鈥�</p>
<p>Castro鈥檚 notorious fondness for women helped.</p>
<p>鈥淔idel was more open to working with a woman,鈥� Huddleston said. 鈥淪o there was always a possibility of finding a way open [between the U.S. and Cuba]. I don鈥檛 think there are any kind of personal relationships now.鈥�</p>
<p>Huddleston鈥檚 memoir offers a window into the start-and-stop, forward-backward nature of U.S.-Cuba relations over the past two decades.</p>
<p>When she arrived in 1999, the U.S.鈥檚 trade embargo was still firm. But the Clinton administration eased travel restrictions and enabled relations with the Cuban government. The Bush administration initially continued this, before reverting to stricter policy.</p>
<p>In 2002 Huddleston left to become U.S. ambassador to Mali. Soon afterward, Castro jailed 75 dissidents and Huddleston鈥檚 radio and book distribution program stalled.</p>
<p>鈥淚 didn鈥檛 agree with anything the [U.S.] administration was doing,鈥� she said.</p>
<p>Huddleston still follows foreign affairs closely and expresses frustration with U.S.-Cuba policy, increasingly fraught after seeming improvement during the Obama years. She hopes her book will convince readers that hardline U.S. policy has failed.</p>
<p>鈥淎nd not only that it failed,鈥� she said, 鈥渂ut that when we are more open, Cuba is more open.鈥�</p>
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When the day came, <strong>Christine Ahn</strong> (PolSci鈥�98) grappled with mixed emotions.<br>
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In May 2015, she traveled to the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea for a peace walk organized by Women Cross DMZ, a group she founded to foster peace on the Korean Peninsula.<br>
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Ahn, an American citizen who was born in South Korea and lives in Hawaii, and 30 other women activists planned to cross the two-mile-wide zone on foot to call for a final end to the Korean War. Fighting stopped in 1953, but the countries never signed a formal peace agreement.<br>
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鈥淚 recall this sinking feeling of being so excited to see my three-year-old daughter and husband, who had traveled from Honolulu to meet me at the other side of the DMZ, but being terrified that they might be the victim of such an attack,鈥� she said.<br>
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Ahn decided to walk anyway 鈥� at the front of the line.<br>
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Feminist icon Gloria Steinem and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland marched with her.<br>
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No one threw acid. The peace walkers punctuated their symbolic stroll by rallying with thousands of other supporters, then convened in Seoul for a women鈥檚 peace symposium.<br>
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With no formal Korean peace agreement signed yet, Ahn forges on, with Maguire and many others at her side.<br>
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鈥淸Her] work of bringing Korean women [from both] North and South and international women together for dialogue has shown the importance of women and civil community in peacemaking,鈥� Maguire told the Coloradan.<br>
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Encouragement helps. After the walk, Ahn faced public accusations of being under North Korean government influence. South Korea placed her on a blacklist 鈥� via orders of then president Park Geun-hye, who is now imprisoned for political corruption 鈥� prohibiting her from traveling to her native country.</p>
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It was a busy summer in 2018 for her on that front, given President Trump鈥檚 controversial summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.<br>
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<p>鈥淔or true peace and understanding to take place, it will take people-to- people engagement, from civil society to business,鈥� she said. 鈥淭hat is my hope and what I have been long working for.鈥�</p>
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<div><p class="lead"></p><p class="lead">About 100 精品SM在线影片 students are undocumented immigrants with federal DACA status. They鈥檙e doing amazing things. But planning for the future isn鈥檛 easy.</p><p class="lead"> </p><p>Alan Sanchez thinks far ahead in time and far away in space.</p><p>With one course to go for a joint bachelor鈥檚-master鈥檚 degree in aerospace engineering, the 精品SM在线影片 student has set his sights on a career in spacecraft propulsion. Long-term, he鈥檚 ready to ride all the way to Mars to help develop a viable human habitat there.</p><p>Here on Earth, he鈥檚 been doing all the right things to cultivate the hard and soft skills that will come in handy as a member of high-stakes technical teams.</p><p>Besides immersing himself in physics, fluid dynamics and philosophy, he鈥檚 worked a series of paid jobs while attending school full-time, including roles with the CU-based National Snow and Ice Data Center and the engineering college's Precision Laser Diagnostics Lab. He鈥檚 been a resident adviser in Libby Hall, a private tutor and a childcare provider at a Boulder school where immigrant parents learn to speak and read English.</p><p><strong>Sanchez </strong>(AeroEngr鈥�17; MS鈥�18) has an internship with Tesla now. On the side, he鈥檚 a competitive breakdancer.</p><p>But more than time and space stand between him and his ambitions.</p><div class="feature-layout-callout feature-layout-callout-medium">
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</div><p>For Sanchez, his immigration status has complicated the pursuit of internships in his chosen field, even with firms eager to have him: In many cases, federal rules forbid aerospace and defense contractors from employing foreign nationals.</p><p>精品SM在线影片, like many universities, has publicly declared its support for DACA and taken steps to help DACA students navigate the extreme uncertainty of life amid shifting federal immigration policies.</p><p>Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano joined more than 700 university leaders who signed an open letter drafted by Pomona College declaring that 鈥淒ACA should be upheld, continued and expanded,鈥� calling the policy 鈥渁 moral imperative and a national necessity.鈥� CU has started a relief fund to help students meet emergency expenses, including $495 DACA renewal application fees, and expanded financial aid for tuition. Chapin said she and her CU law students have helped at least 50 students fill out and file renewal applications.</p><p>She also lends her ear to students wrestling with fear and frustration as they try to set a course for their lives amid national discord over immigration policy. She鈥檚 invited all of them to her home for a barbecue in June.</p><p>鈥淚t鈥檚 a little bit of a social worker aspect, which I鈥檝e always embraced as a defense lawyer,鈥� said Chapin, a former Washington, D.C., public defender. 鈥淵ou meet with people in the most challenging moments in their lives. You listen to them, hear feelings, anxieties and emotions. I try to do that as often as I can.鈥�</p><p></p><p>Sanchez isn鈥檛 the sort to dwell on negative thoughts. He鈥檚 an engineer, and engineers are pragmatic. He鈥檚 got problems to solve and an opportunity at Tesla to seize, an opportunity that could spawn others.</p><p>There鈥檚 meanwhile the business of living and making plans amid profound uncertainty. Sanchez wants financial security, so he鈥檚 been looking into Roth IRAs. He鈥檚 working to set up a scholarship for first-year 精品SM在线影片 students who can鈥檛 afford to live on campus, as he once couldn鈥檛. He tries to make time to dance.</p><p>Sanchez worries less about himself and his siblings, he said, than about his undocumented parents, who are ineligible for DACA.</p><p>鈥淭here鈥檚 nothing to protect them,鈥� he said.</p><p>It weighs on him.</p><p>The needs of Shiyan Zhang鈥檚 younger siblings in Grand Junction add urgency to her own search for stability. Their parents have divorced. From Boulder, Zhang helps look after the kids, taking responsibility even for registering them for school, she said.</p><p>Zhang must look out for herself, too, of course. She wants to move up in the world, and has been offered a summer internship with a Denver firm she鈥檇 like to join full-time. But she doesn鈥檛 know if she鈥檒l be able to take it, given her immigration status.</p><p>鈥淵ou feel so helpless,鈥� she said.</p><p>One thing Sanchez and Zhang can do is share their stories, two among millions.</p><p>Twice in recent months Sanchez has addressed 精品SM在线影片 alumni audiences, once in Los Angeles, once in Washington, D.C.</p><p>鈥淚 have lived most of my life in a state of limbo, not knowing exactly where I stand and who around me would like to see me fall,鈥� he said at the 精品SM在线影片 Next conference in Los Angeles. 鈥淚t means the world to me that 精品SM在线影片 is openly supportive of DACA students, and I can鈥檛 thank them enough for that.鈥�</p><p>Afterward, an alumnus approached him and offered a ring as a token of solidarity.</p><p>鈥淲hen you graduate, give this ring to the next DACA student you think should have [it],鈥� Sanchez said the man told him.</p><p>Soon Alan Sanchez will have two degrees from a leading American aerospace engineering program. He鈥檇 like to put them to work for America.</p><p> </p><p>Photos by Glenn Asakawa</p></div>
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