Ximena's Summer Rent/DACA renewal fund
Donation protected
Hello friends and kind strangers,
My name is Ximena Ospina. I'm a Cancer sun and Aries moon/rising if that is of importance.
I would like for your help in paying my rent and renewing my DACA. Since September, I have been enrolled full-time at Columbia University. This entire time my rent and meals were covered by the Point Scholarship. My scholarship can only cover fall and spring semester months. For the summer, all my school-year savings run out as I am left to fend for myself. I am a full-time student and organizer at school. I have helped run the Undocumented Students' Initiative (Undo_CU).I also do occasional catering gigs and I am a part-time community organizer for the New York State Youth Leadership Council. Between August 2018-May 2019, I was not paid for my work at the YLC.
Because of unpaid work and invested time, I am not able to sufficiently to save enough money for the summer. I have lived on my own since I was kicked out in 2017 for being queer and trans. I have since began to medically transition, which means moving back in is certainly an impossibility. I live in a hallway-sized room in Harlem so I can stay close to school because that is where I get all of my medical services.
This summer I am receiving a grant to at the YLC part-time until August. This will only cover my grocery & transportation budget. I have taken on another internship at the Ford Foundation (so I can look fancy for law school apps) that will not pay me until its completion in late August.
Most importantly, without my DACA I would not be able to do many of the things I can do to sustain and protect myself. I did not ask for any funds for my renewal in 2017. My DACA is set to expire in October 2019, and with it goes my license and all state IDs. I have to send my renewal in June.
I need not explain the incredible violence aimed on undocumented trans people in this moment. For more information on the state of immigration please check out my instagram @undocuqueer. Check out the @nysylc's website nysylc.org. You can also check out my student group's facebook.com/undocumentedcu.
My name is Ximena Ospina. I'm a Cancer sun and Aries moon/rising if that is of importance.
I would like for your help in paying my rent and renewing my DACA. Since September, I have been enrolled full-time at Columbia University. This entire time my rent and meals were covered by the Point Scholarship. My scholarship can only cover fall and spring semester months. For the summer, all my school-year savings run out as I am left to fend for myself. I am a full-time student and organizer at school. I have helped run the Undocumented Students' Initiative (Undo_CU).I also do occasional catering gigs and I am a part-time community organizer for the New York State Youth Leadership Council. Between August 2018-May 2019, I was not paid for my work at the YLC.
Because of unpaid work and invested time, I am not able to sufficiently to save enough money for the summer. I have lived on my own since I was kicked out in 2017 for being queer and trans. I have since began to medically transition, which means moving back in is certainly an impossibility. I live in a hallway-sized room in Harlem so I can stay close to school because that is where I get all of my medical services.
This summer I am receiving a grant to at the YLC part-time until August. This will only cover my grocery & transportation budget. I have taken on another internship at the Ford Foundation (so I can look fancy for law school apps) that will not pay me until its completion in late August.
Most importantly, without my DACA I would not be able to do many of the things I can do to sustain and protect myself. I did not ask for any funds for my renewal in 2017. My DACA is set to expire in October 2019, and with it goes my license and all state IDs. I have to send my renewal in June.
I need not explain the incredible violence aimed on undocumented trans people in this moment. For more information on the state of immigration please check out my instagram @undocuqueer. Check out the @nysylc's website nysylc.org. You can also check out my student group's facebook.com/undocumentedcu.
Organizer
Xime Ospina
Organizer
New York, NY