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my name is Rochelle Xavier and I'm an
artist and educator from San Diego

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California and I was the 2018 artisan
resident at the new Children's Museum I

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was set up with the task to work with
the community to help build a dialogue

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on race identity and then also family
origin my experience growing up didn't

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really include a lot of activities that
were for me and my whole family my

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parents were immigrants so they were
constantly at work when I had the

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opportunity to tackle this challenge and
how to make conversations more fun and

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easy for families that just really hit
home to me

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I developed a series of workshops and an
exhibition that I helped to curate that

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was presented in the community gallery
right here in the Children's Museum so

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when you walk into the community gallery
there's this huge wall with like over

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200 images that were hand-drawn by the
youth and the families across San Diego

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County it is possible to talk about race
and ethnicity at a young age we just

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have to give people the tools and the
space to do it to feel comfortable the

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workshops that they provide are really
beneficial to the community because they

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are able to access a lot of areas of San
Diego that might not typically go to the

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museum you may not have the resources
kind of breaking down the walls of what

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it means to see art it should be
accessible to everyone

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anytime the new Children's Museum really
changed my perspective of what it means

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to be a professional artist

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the new Children's Museum really helped
me access my bravery and for me that was

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a really big step so something I've
really been able to achieve through the

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museum is to really expand the workshop
to other places in the communities

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that's an international project and I
really don't think that I'd be able to

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have the capacity to like do this type
of project without the new Children's

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Museum's help so I think the National
Medal is a big win for the museum to

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really showcase the impact that they've
had on the San Diego community and

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recognize its rich diversity what we're
doing is working do we get these

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conversations to to happen and to kind
of ignite within our community and I

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feel like the community voices are
really being heard

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you