Tess Clarke & Arturo Coto, Perspectives on Immigration in America

The Going Scared Podcast with Jessica Honegger

Jessica Honegger

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🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week we continue our series on the Art of Difficult Dialogue with two special guests, Tess Clarke and Arturo Coto.

Arturo Coto holds a senior leadership position alongside Jessica Honegger at Noonday Collection and founded XRoad Consulting. Arturo shares his story of how and why his family came to the U.S. from El Salvador and illuminates the dire realities and hopeful possibilities that immigrant families face.

Tess Clarke co-founded Seek the Peace, a community of peacemakers seeking the safety, peace, and flourishing of refugees and immigrants. She will share why and how she continues to work as an advocate through this important work.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everyone welcome back to the going scared podcast this is your host Jessica Honeker
0:04.0	founder of the social impact fashion brand noonday collection join me here every week for
0:09.3	conversations on living lives of purpose by leaving comfort and going scared.
0:15.0	Thanks for sticking with me during this Art of Difficult Dialogue series. I know we've all been on a learning journey together and really
0:28.6	learning how to hold tensions and embrace nuance has been one of my biggest lessons and that
0:35.4	requires a lot of effort and today's conversation is no different. Today we are
0:42.0	talking about immigration. But before we dive in with a
0:47.0	policy expert I wanted you to hear from someone who is goodness a very very important person in my life.
0:57.0	Arturo Koto, he hails from El Salvador and he works with me here at Nune Day Collection on our executive team.
1:05.0	He's been working with Nune Day Collection since 2015 and has truly helped us to build and scale and create a culture and he works with absolute passion
1:21.5	and tenacity and creativity and he I can't imagine New Day without him.
1:30.0	Arturo is actually a political asylum refugee from El Salvador.
1:36.7	Also on our executive team is another woman who works with us who is an immigrant
1:42.3	Sheila Walker. We also have many many
1:45.4	refugees who work with us here at New Day collections. So immigrants and
1:48.7	refugees are very important people in my life. So before we got into policy,
1:53.7	I wanted you to just hear from a person,
1:57.6	a person that is near and dear to noonday,
2:00.2	a person who has an incredible story and who I hope may humanize this issue for you.
2:07.3	We're going to start off by hearing from Arturo Koto. I mean, we could do a whole podcast on what it's like to be the youngest brother of spy sisters.
2:25.0	We could.
2:26.0	That's a whole story there.
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