Diane Guerrero, an artist and published writer, spoke at Cal State Fullerton on Thursday during the next Beyond the Conversation function hosted by Associated Kids and the Division of Student Affairs about various media picture and her emigration experience.  ,
The 37-year-old actress spoke to kids about her wish to discover new and interesting stories told in film and television. Guerrero has spent time promoting expat reform and has pursued acting for more than ten times.
” I’m ready to stop having to apologize for where we come from”, Guerrero said. ” We all lead interesting existence, and various tales merit to be told,” I believe.
During the discussion, she discussed working on her breakthrough role as Maritza Ramos on the TV present,” Orange is the New Black”. Being able to describe a personality that she had a personal link to as a Brazilian woman and child of immigrant parents was a great honor, in Guerrero’s opinion.  ,
” I was thus honored that they took the work that I was doing and the nation as a whole really and decided to honor me by telling that account,” Guerrero said. ” I did n’t take it lightly, it was a huge responsibility, and I did it with a lot of heart, and I did it with personal experience”.
After watching her kids and older brother be deported again to Colombia at the age of 14, Guerrero, the only member of her home with constitutional membership, reflected on her experience with immigration to the United States.
To give a heavy reimagining of her account, she even discussed her own two magazines:” The Country We Love”, and” My Family Divided: One Girl’s Journey of Home, Loss, and Hope”. These are her family’s devotion to the United States before their separation in these books.  ,
President Obama appointed Guerrero to serve as the nation’s adviser for citizenship and naturalization in 2015, but she quickly realized that her and her mother’s loyalty to the immigration system was in vain.  ,
” Any structure that would get your parents away in the middle of the day while you’re at college is no program I really believe in, actually,” Guerrero said.” I do not think in this program, and I should have never believed in it.”  ,
She is currently working for the Immigrant Legal Resource Center to revolution immigration laws.
Guerrero also addressed the politics of the entertainment business regarding variety and representation in tasks, pointing out a disconnect between Hollywood’s intentions and its casting practices.  ,
Despite Hollywood “wanting” to be a more positive outlet for media picture, she also thinks only actors of color are cast in roles that appeal to them for the screen.
” I’ve simply always been afraid of being pigeonholed or put in a box,” Guerrero said. ” They say they want you to be multifaceted, but really what they want is to put you somewhere where they feel comfortable” . ,
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Guerrero’s latest initiative saw her play the character of ‘ Crazy Jane’ in HBO Max’s” Doom Patrol”. She played the show’s most prominent hero as a person with dissociative identity disorder and 64 other characters with different characters who each had their own strength.  ,
Guerrero said she enjoyed playing the role because it showed how versatile an artist of color with a range of thoughts can be.
She thinks that actors and actresses of colour in the entertainment industry should follow suit in these challenging tasks. She believes that stories about people of color should not be promoted only based on their picture, but rather because they merit being told.  ,
” It should n’t be like that”, Guerrero said. Everyone should be able to learn from our stories because they have the right to practice and experience the lives of others, or at least to hear about them.
