{"id":7626,"date":"2023-11-10T05:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T05:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/?p=4679"},"modified":"2024-12-22T19:00:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T14:00:25","slug":"giuliana-valencia-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/giuliana-valencia-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking Up for New Americans: Giuliana Valencia-Banks, B.A. \u201921, MPA \u201923"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7626\" class=\"elementor elementor-7626\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-22cbc07 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"22cbc07\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-91b3597\" data-id=\"91b3597\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-074dab6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"074dab6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>BY CHRISTIANNA McCAUSLAND<\/p><div><figure id=\"attachment_7094\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7094\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.willettassociates.com\/ubalt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Valencia-Banks-708x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"1012\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CHRIS MYERS PHOTOGRAPHY<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><blockquote><p>BIO<\/p><ul><li><div>B.A. \u201921, M.P.A. \u201923, College of Public Affairs<\/div><\/li><li><div>Advocate for immigrant and new Americans<\/div><\/li><li><div>Chief, Immigrant Affairs program for Baltimore County<\/div><\/li><li><div>Member, Baltimore County\u2019s New Americans Task Force<\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/blockquote><p>When the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed in March, <strong>Giuliana Valencia-Banks, B.A. \u201921, MPA \u201923<\/strong>, knew without being told that it was immigrants who were working on the road that night. Her first concern was that there be interpreters onsite, something she was pleased to see the FBI handled well. Her next thought was to work with partners to ensure there were culturally competent, bilingual trauma counselors available for the affected families.<\/p><p>In an email statement reported in <em>The Baltimore Sun<\/em> at the time of the collapse, Gov. Wes Moore stated, \u201cThis is an all-hands-on-deck moment for our state, and we are thankful for leaders like Giuliana who are putting their passion and their skills to work on behalf of our fellow Marylanders.\u201d<br \/><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/giuliana-valencia-banks\/#more-7626\" class=\"more-link elementor-more-link\"><span aria-label=\"Continue reading Speaking Up for New Americans: Giuliana Valencia-Banks, B.A. \u201921, MPA \u201923\">(more&hellip;)<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY CHRISTIANNA McCAUSLAND BIO B.A. \u201921, M.P.A. \u201923, College of Public Affairs Advocate for immigrant and new Americans Chief, Immigrant Affairs program for Baltimore County Member, Baltimore County\u2019s New Americans Task Force When the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed in March, Giuliana Valencia-Banks, B.A. \u201921, MPA \u201923, knew without being told that it was immigrants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4463,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7626"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7830,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626\/revisions\/7830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/ubmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}