How Did Family Separation Affect Your Life? with Diane Guerrero

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

4.9 • 21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Actor, activist, and author Diane Guerrero joins Jonathan to blow their mind and open our eyes to something many Americans have experienced but isn't talked about enough. Diane is an outspoken advocate for commonsense, comprehensive immigration reform and has worked with Immigrant Legal Resource Center and Mi Familia Vota, a nonpartisan Latino civic engagement organization to promote citizenship and voter registration. Follow Diane on Twitter @dianeguerrero__, Instagram @dianexguerrero, and Facebook @DianeGuerreroOfficial. Her book is In The Country We Love. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook.

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0:00.0	On today's episode, I'm joined by an incredible person.
0:05.7	She is an actress, an advocate, an author.
0:09.3	Her name is Diane Guerrero.
0:10.6	You may know her from Orange is the New Black or her incredible book in the country we love,
0:14.7	My Family Divided.
0:16.8	She is about to help blow our minds and really open up our senses to a experience that
0:24.0	so many Americans face that we don't hear about in the perspective and the importance of what
0:30.6	Diana's sharing is really beyond any intro that I can give this so without any further ado,
0:35.3	here we go with our gorgeous conversation on how we can be better allies to our undocumented
0:40.3	American family members with Diane Guerrero.
0:47.1	I was so nervous at that music this year.
0:48.8	Like, like, the last year I wasn't as much in this year.
0:51.1	I was like, I was just like edgy.
0:54.1	You look great.
0:55.0	Thank you.
0:55.5	And I saw you and I go, oh my god, it was so great to see you because I felt like
1:00.8	I've I went and I get scared at those events and I do the red carpet and then I hate myself because
1:06.3	I'm like, where was your confidence, bitch?
1:09.2	You know, I'm just like, where, where, and then I just try to like look for people that I know
1:12.9	and I didn't know you, but I know that I was doing this podcast.
1:16.0	Oh, I was like, hello, I like that.
1:18.3	Honestly, coming up to you was like so hard for me.
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