I LEARN AMERICA x MOLAA - StoryShare
Floriselda & Anthony Febo Conversation
Floriselda is a young Guatemala living in Los Angeles. She’s a senior at the Miguel Contreras Educational Complex in downtown LA and will be attending UC Riverside next year. With I Learn America, she wrote the poem entitled, “There’s a Story Behind Each Scar” and worked with her schoolmates to reformat 3 Paletero push-carts into libraries of stories. The carts have been used for community events at MOLAA. Flori and her story were also featured in a mural by artists Pavel Acevedo and Kate Deciccio for WERISE.LA.
Anthony Febo is a Puerto Rican poet and teaching artist. When not touring the country individually and as half of the cooking and poetry duo Adobo-Fish-Sauce with Ricky Orng, Febo coaches and teaches youth slam teams. As an artist, Febo’s work explores what it means to actively choose joy in the face of what is trying to break you. To learn more about his work, visit his website: thisisfebo.com
I LEARN AMERICA (ILA) is a transnational, multifaceted, and participatory youth development and education program that uses the power of creative storytelling and the arts to foster empathy, urgency, and action around issues affecting migrant youth, as they forge their path in a new land. Through collaborations with schools, storytelling mentors/artists, activists, and community-based organizations, ILA strengthens young people’s social-emotional learning and helps them transform their stories into tools for social change and personal growth.
To learn more about I LEARN AMERICA, visit their website.