Each day, thousands of single mothers and divorced women carry back-breaking amounts of Spanish goods across the frontier from Cueta and Melilla to Morocco.
Author: Anna Blue
Anna Blue is the Junior Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy. She graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations and a minor in Modern Languages with interdisciplinary honors after completing her honors thesis on religious violence in Mexico with the Stanford Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. Previously, Anna was fortunate to intern at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., EMILY’s List, the Innovation Section of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Flora Family Foundation and La Alianza Por La Solidaridad in Madrid.
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