Lily Diaz

Liliana Diaz works with youth. She wants to make a difference not only for the community, but even for her daughter. She loves doing what she does. Liliana is helpful, hard working and proud because of the fact that she wants to make a difference in the world and see if anything could be changed.

        Liliana does a lot of things of with youth. She does something that can help people when they are dealing with bullies and also she works with all of students that are in the neighborhood or even KP. She does a lot that involves immigration work or even with school. This really helps a lot because if there is some people that need help with something, she and the people that she works with can really do a lot for all the people that need so much help. There is a lot of other jobs like working with children but you can choose what you would like to do. They don’t do it for the money, but they do it because they feel that it’s wrong. She likes to work with teenagers for the fact that she could talk to them in an early age about what is going on and tell them that they should start doing stuff in their community and it will really change.

      Liliana goes with the students in the youth leadership program and goes to the congressman to talk about what they think needs to be changed in communities or just everything in general because there is a lot of things that are wrong. The protesters were protesting about immigration they were saying nasty things like that they should close the border. Liliana and her group had confronted protesters that were against immigration and we're talking very negative about it. The protesters were saying that they need to take their families and go back from where they came from. They were saying very racist things to Liliana and her group and were even recording them and Liliana doesn't even know why they were in the first place. She had said, “that they were just putting more wood into the fire.”

          She thinks that CPS doesn't really care what other people want or what they can do to make all the neighborhoods better or it could even be the schools. CPS wants to close schools that little kids go to and now they're going to have to go farther just because of what CPS had chose to do and its not even the students fault they just want more money. Liliana doesn’t like the fact that schools look at GPA. She thinks it shouldn’t even be important and you should let a kid in no matter what it is at least they try their best to do good and CPS doesn’t really appreciate much.

      Liliana thinks that a hero is a person that cares and takes care of their family even if they're the only parent figure in the house. They would just do a great job doing all that work and making sure that there are kids doing good. Her mom was like the only one that took care of her and her siblings when their dad wasn’t really in the picture but her mom did everything she could and try to buy them things when she could. It was hard for her but she was doing the best that she can do.

       What I learned from Liliana is that she is really great person, and she does care about the world and what happens in it. She really wants to make a huge change and that’s awesome. I learned so much from her and know that if she keeps doing what she has been doing since the start, people will open their eyes and listen. They will know that they should do the same. She makes me want to stand up and do something about all of this that has been going on. If I had another chance to interview her again it would be great. I would love to hear more information about what she has been doing since the last time I met her. It’s good to know that someone cares about the changes that could be done.