Immigrant Legal Resource Center and with mi familia vo, the vota. She has been named embassador for citizenship and naturalization by the white house. Tonight she is joined by the Baltimore Suns Award Winning education reporter liz and liz we thank you very much for being here and moderating this conversation with dian. Please welcome dian and liz to the Pratt Library. [applause] hello. Good evening. Can you all hear us . Hello. Oh, this does work. [laughter] well, i just wanted to start the conversation off by having dian tell you u you have probably know of her as an actress but maybe you dont know her back story, so i wanted to ask her to give us a briefest of introductions about her story just to sort of structure of it and who she is. Thank you. Thank you, liz, thank you, judy and thank you Pratt Library and thank you for all of you for being here today, i feel so honored that you guys came out to hear me speak, i will try my best. Well, my name is dian guerrero, my parents are co
Conversation with diane. On with please welcome diane and liz to the pratt library. [applause] hello. Good evening. Can you hear us . Hello. This does work. L hear u well, i just wanted to start the conversation off by having diane tell you you have probably know of her as an actress but maybe you dont know her back story. So, i wanted to ask her to give us the briefest of instructions about her story, just to sort of structure and who she is. Thank you. Thank you, liz, thank you, judy, and thank you pratt library, and thank you to all of you foring here today. Feel so honored that you guys came out to hear me speak. Ill try my best. My name is diane guerrero. My parents are colombian immigrants. Was born in new jersey but i was raised in boston. Boston. Anybody . No. Yay my parents came here with a visa in hopes i mean, this story changes sometimes between me and my dad. Sometimes they say we were just going to see how check out the states or my mother had hopes of staying and making
Libraries. I like to own t they might loan me a book or Something Like that. I do go to bookstores and just browse like everybody else. I read reviews. And you know, i just see something or hear something, there is no particularly systematic way. Or i decide i want to, you know, i want to read something on fillintheblank. You just go to the internet and pop up something about this and there you go. And then i try, if i am going to have an opportunity to meet an author, the other night at the library of congress, we had this president ial series that they are doing and i didnt have a chance to meet him but i was an admirer of evan thomas who wrote a book i friend of mine got me that was autographed from him. So i wanted to make sure i read being nixon which is one of the best and sympathetic portraits of Richard Nixon i have ever read. One of the nice things in this business is you have those opportunities more than others do. Host on the night evan thomas was at the library of congress
[inaudible] i was wondering. [inaudible] the people who are my true friends are supportive and a lot of my friends from clueless are still supportive of me but there are a lot of people who are no longer my friends. They just stop talking to me. Family members as well. But thats okay because i believe if god wants you to do something he opens up the doors and all you have to do is walk through them and thats what im doing. [inaudible] i just wondered what you would say to people who are supporting hillary clinton. How do you can bet this clinton machine . What do you say to young women in this room. [inaudible] because she is now the nominee. Not shifting, how do you present the future to young women. I say to women, i have a new brand and its called america one of my platforms is called 21st century feminism and that is being a lady, just like every single one of you in here, being a woman, dressing like a woman, behaving like a lady, using all the tools god gave you and dont let anyo
Disenfranchised, dont get to have the education that we might have now or know we have now, going talk to people and places you might not want to talk to people and share what you know. Share whats good and weve got to break that narrative that the democrats have been feeding to the country, that plantation mentality that they been feeding to everyone that this is as far as you get to go and you cant do everything, you cant achieve everything you want. Theres not enough to go around. Then you know what theyre doing, theyre putting a limit on our god. And does god have limits . No, he does not. And neither do you. I go to the university of south carolina. I was wondering your opinion as a conservative woman with our Presumptive Republican nominee being donald trump, he has been in the media a lot for saying some inappropriate things about women, sexual and racist comments, do you feel those are accurate . No, i dont feel theyre accurate at all. They can never tell me anything specific o