This year we embarked on a new collaboration between immigrant rights group La Resistencia, UWCHR, and Hinton Publishing to showcase the stories of people in deportation proceedings in Washington State. A team of 17 students worked to gather the stories of people facing deportation through Boeing Field (and in some cases, folks already deported). As UWCHR director Angelina Godoy said during our May 2024 Spring Symposium where we featured the stories gathered, “This project was born of the idea that while we fight for policy changes, we also work to share the stories from people themselves, to humanize those forced into detention and deportation systems that dehumanize them, to find ways to uplift the humanity of those who struggle for justice.”
With the collaboration of Hinton Publishing, we hope to shepherd their stories onto the page and share them, so we might take stock of what we’re losing when we allow these people to be silently expelled from our communities every Tuesday. This past March, we shared the stories for the first time in a reading at the Seattle Rep Theater before the evening’s performance of the play Sanctuary City.
This update is featured in UWCHR’s 2023-2024 Annual Report.
