Image Gallery: Ned Flanagan
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Ned Flanagan
Echols Scholar, University of Virginia
Sigue Adelante: El Camino del Migrante
Sigue Adelante: El Camino del Migrante is a collection of poems with accompanying images which collectively seek to convey what a migrant traveling from Latin America to the United States might encounter on their journey. Every poem is inspired by the true stories of migrants and their own reflections on their path to the U.S./Mexico border. The title “Sigue Adelante” highlights the incredible perseverance and determination that permeate practically every migrant’s story of hope and struggle to reach a family member, safety, or a chance for a better life.
Introduction to Sigue Adelante: El Camino del Migrante
Sigue Adelante: El Camino del Migrante is a collection of poems with accompanying images which collectively seek to convey what a migrant traveling from Latin America to the United States might encounter on their journey. Every poem is inspired by the true stories of migrants and their own reflections on their path to the U.S./Mexico border. The title “Sigue Adelante” highlights the incredible perseverance and determination that permeate practically every migrant’s story of hope and struggle to reach a family member, safety, or a chance for a better life.
La Bestia
Sigue Adelante: El Camino del Migrante is a collection of poems with accompanying images which collectively seek to convey what a migrant traveling from Latin America to the United States might encounter on their journey. Every poem is inspired by the true stories of migrants and their own reflections on their path to the U.S./Mexico border. The title “Sigue Adelante” highlights the incredible perseverance and determination that permeate practically every migrant’s story of hope and struggle to reach a family member, safety, or a chance for a better life.
Me Dijeron
Sigue Adelante: El Camino del Migrante is a collection of poems with accompanying images which collectively seek to convey what a migrant traveling from Latin America to the United States might encounter on their journey. Every poem is inspired by the true stories of migrants and their own reflections on their path to the U.S./Mexico border. The title “Sigue Adelante” highlights the incredible perseverance and determination that permeate practically every migrant’s story of hope and struggle to reach a family member, safety, or a chance for a better life.
Esposados de la Oportunidad
Sigue Adelante: El Camino del Migrante is a collection of poems with accompanying images which collectively seek to convey what a migrant traveling from Latin America to the United States might encounter on their journey. Every poem is inspired by the true stories of migrants and their own reflections on their path to the U.S./Mexico border. The title “Sigue Adelante” highlights the incredible perseverance and determination that permeate practically every migrant’s story of hope and struggle to reach a family member, safety, or a chance for a better life.
Ned is a third-year undergraduate student studying Public Policy and Leadership as well as Global Development Studies and Latin American Studies at the University of Virginia. Shaped by experiences working along the U.S./Mexico border with deportees and asylum seekers from Central America, Ned has specific interests in immigration policy, humanitarian aid, and asylum law. Ned spent four months volunteering for the Kino Border Initiative (Iniciativa Kino para la Frontera) in Nogales, Sonora/Nogales, Arizona where he served daily in the aid center and regularly visited migrants in detention centers in Arizona. Before working with KBI, Ned spent four months studying Spanish, Quechua, and indigenous movements in Bolivia and Peru. As a Research Assistant with the UVA Humanitarian Collaborative, Ned has conducted research about the history, efficacy, and ethics of global humanitarian action as well as how best to promote early childhood development in crisis contexts (ECDiE).
Other Collaborators: Wenceslo Hernandez
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