Extra Stories: "Remember Where You Came From" With Monica Ramirez

How It Is

Hello Sunshine

Feminism, Kelly Mccreary, 450895, Storytelling, Society & Culture, Phoebe Robinson, Jameela Jamil, Reese Witherspoon, Women

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

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You wanted more? We got you. We're going to share a few extra stories from your favorite "How It Is" storytellers from Season 1. Today: Activist and the co-founder of Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, Monica Ramirez, shares why it's so important to always remember your roots.

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0:00.0	Hello sunshine.
0:02.0	Hello sunshine.
0:03.0	Hello sunshine.
0:03.8	Gotta make hay while the sunshine.
0:05.6	What's this?
0:06.4	This is Hello sunshine.
0:08.3	What if by sharing our stories we could change the world.
0:13.0	Welcome to Hello Sunshine.
0:15.0	I'm Diane Guerrero and this is how it is.
0:21.0	The show where you hear women tell their own stories in their own words.
0:24.7	We're unfiltered, real, and totally ourselves.
0:29.3	We heard you when you said you wanted more.
0:32.0	So today we are going to share more wisdom
0:35.3	from one of our favorite storytellers from season one.
0:38.6	Today we have Monica Ramirez talking about the value of never forgetting where you come from.
0:49.0	So I grew up in northwest Ohio, my hometown is called Fremont, Ohio and that's an agricultural
0:55.8	community. The town for the most part is is predominantly white. You know there's
1:00.5	also a sizable African American community but there really wasn't a ton of diversity in the town when I was growing up.
1:08.0	I would say the Latino community was probably of the different groups that were living there. We were probably the smallest group or population that was represented.
1:17.5	And you know one of the things that was really significant to me growing up
1:22.1	was that many of us went to the same church.
1:26.2	We went to this church called St. Joe's because it was the only church, the Catholic
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