MELISSA PÉREZ SANCHO
Melissa Pérez Sancho is a Digital Content Creator for the Weave News social media team. She is currently an undergraduate student at St. Lawrence University, where she plans to major in Government and History. Melissa has a great interest in social justice, especially in Latin America, her region of origin. She is also a published author for the Glocal Dispatches series with an article titled Huetar Norte: Complex Fruits of Globalization in Costa Rica.
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In this article, I seek to go beyond simply presenting statistics to illustrate the scope of poverty or economic insecurity in the North Country. I want to show how the limited understanding of poverty, as a threshold defined by institutions, obscures our awareness of people’s struggles to cover their necessities and of the systemic issues causing economic insecurity. Beyond this, I explore the intersection of social class with other identities such as gender and race while also highlighting the importance of grassroots work. Overall, I hope to generate more empathy for our neighbors and encourage support for the people working to improve their communities.