Dr. Emma Violand Sanchez featured on Aging Matters Local program ‘Aging Matters’ featured Dream Project’s founder and chair Dr. Emma Violand Sanchez. In this interview Dr. Violand Sanchez
As you may know, the Dream Project began 10 years ago at Emma Violand-Sanchez’s kitchen table. She organized a group of people who knew students’ immigration status should
By: Karen Vallejos Corrales, Dream Project Alumna I immigrated to the United States at the age of five and grew up here in Virginia. I was undocumented, and
This year would have been the 10th anniversary of the Dream Project’s first holiday dinner fundraiser, which helped raise scholarship funds for our four original scholars in 2010.
While this year did not go at all as any of us planned, here at the Dream Project we accomplished a great deal. Mid-fiscal-year we were confronted with
Written by: Carlos Puerta Even though the Dream Summit was virtual this year, there was a lot to learn—both from past and present. Here are the key things
July 19, 2020 by Abel Flores Leave a Comment In August 2001, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) (SFS ’66, LAW ’69) and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) introduced the Development,
To kick off the Fourth of July weekend this year, the Dream Project imagined our ever-popular benefit concert within the confines of our new, digital world. Rather than
By Lizzette Arias, Executive Director, Dream Project and Victoria Gonzalez, Senior Intern, Dream Project Background of the Case In June 2012, President Barack Obama established DACA (Deferred Action
On June 18, 2020, the Supreme Court concluded that the Department of Homeland Security improperly ended the DACA program in a 5-4 ruling. Besides determining that the case
On Monday, May 4, together with six other immigrant-rights focused groups in Virginia sent a letter to Governor Northam to ask him to help the children of immigrants,
COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund Helps Immigrants In-Need March 29, 2020 Arlington VA – The Dream Project, a nonprofit organization offering educational assistance to immigrants in Northern Virginia through
