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5 <br /> Page 1 of 2 Brenda Amezquita-Castro <br /> Volunteer Application <br /> Orange County Advisory Boards and Commissions <br /> Name: Brenda Amezquita-Castro <br /> Name Called: <br /> Home Address: 807 Kings Mill Rd <br /> Chapel Hill NC 27517 <br /> Phone (Day): 7865085876 <br /> Phone (Evening): 7865085876 <br /> Phone (Cell): 7865085876 <br /> Email: amezquita.castro@gmail.com <br /> Place of Employment: Durham Crisis Response Center <br /> Job Title: Immigrant Services Coordinator <br /> Year of OC Residence: 2019 <br /> Township of Residence: Chapel Hill <br /> Zone of Residence: <br /> Sex: Female <br /> Ethnic Background: Hispanic <br /> Community Activities/Organizational Memberships: <br /> I have recently moved to Orange County and am interested in getting involved with <br /> organizations leading racial equity efforts in the community. I am a community auditor in <br /> the course Leading for Racial Equity: Examining Structural Issues of Race and Class <br /> with the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC Chapel Hill. I was part of <br /> Buncombe County s Community Health Improvement Program, and co-led Buncombe <br /> County s Pathway to Prevention Task Force. <br /> Past Service on Orange County Advisory Boards: <br /> N/A <br /> Boards/Commissions applied for: <br /> Human Relations Commission <br /> Background, education and experience relevant to this board: <br /> I was born and raised in Colombia, amidst an ongoing armed conflict. I am a first generation <br /> college educated woman, pursuing a career in Education and Foreign Languages. After several <br /> years in education, I decided to switch fields and focus on Peace and Conflict Studies, along <br /> with Politics and Public Administration. I have participated in community interventions as a <br /> community member, as an educator, and as a practitioner. Based on my experience, I have <br /> come to believe that most interventions are doomed to failure, if there is not a paradigm shift in <br /> the way we approach communities. We come to communities with promising plans (to our eyes), <br /> and regardless of our greatest intentions, we usually fail to understand their realities. <br /> Reasons for wanting to serve on this board: <br /> I would like to serve on this board because I am interested in the construction of relationships <br /> that call for a process of humanizing others. I believe that this relational component and <br /> interaction is the basis for trust and community building. Once we have become proximate with <br /> one another, we can start taking steps towards the transformation of our shared realities in a <br /> more conscious and meaningful way, holding each other accountable for the impact that our <br />