Carolina Solorio
Carolina Solorio is from the town of Nueva Italia in the state of Michoacán in Mexico. She left her home to come to the U.S. when she was a very young. Carolina is a Promotora, a community health worker, with the Cuyama Valley Family Resource Center, she and other promotoras work to bring resources, such as mental health education, to the local community. She appreciates what she is learning through this work as she never received a formal education herself and realizes that she has much to learn. She would like to see more people within the community take advantage of this resource but understands that it is hard for people to attend sessions because they are often working and they don’t have the time and sometimes energy to attend.