News item: PLF Steel Fellow Lisa Cisneros featured in the Advocate
March 25, 2008 The Advocate has an article about Tom Steel Fellow Lisa Cisneros’ Proyecto Poderoso. Here’s an excerpt:
Lisa Cisneros, a 28-year-old attorney, is one of those sources of help. A graduate of the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, Cisneros grew up in Salinas and now practices law for a special kind of client in her hometown: LGBT farmworkers.
“They’re very brave,” says Cisneros from her office in East Salinas, a heavily Latino neighborhood with a large farmworker population. “Imagine being a transgender woman working in the middle of a broccoli field. It takes a lot of courage.”
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