I was looking over your goals and they are soo similar to mine! Not nessecarily the ones I have on here…but I’m currently a journalism major in the pre-law program with intentions of doing human rights work in small countries. =) And as cliche as this sounds after the movie “the interpreter” came out, I would absolutely love to interpret, or work closely with the UN doing…pretty much anything. And yea, I didnt want to just leave a general cheer soo I thought I’d drop a comment to say stay encouraged! Whether its publishing a novel or feeling like we can’t see the immediate effects of the work we’re doing with amnesty….keep it up! Because the payoff is worth all the hard work, every time.

and yea, p.s- sorry if this was weird, I’ll blame it on being new to this…

choose to pursue this noble and necessary career.

My grandfather, Jorge Padilla, was an attorney and a statesman who defended the right to freely worship, in an historical context wherein the PRI and Mexican governnment attempted to abolish all religion, confiscate and close all churches and religious schools, during the war of the Mexican Revolution and the decades following 1910-13.

His work resulted in a government plot to assassinate both him and the Archbiship of Guadalajara. Thank G-d, both escaped alive and lived many years.

While at some point my mother and her sister, my aunt, were detained by police, my grandfather succeeded, before fleeing to Los Angeles, in getting them freed one the grounds that there were no legal charges against them.