This week, we spoke with Shellee Laurent: an activist, artist, mother, and a proud Guatemalan-Mexican-American woman/queen living in Laredo TX. We first met Shellee during our visit to to Laredo in 2018. We stayed connected via social media and then profiled her on our Laredo on the Line publication. We wanted to speak with Shellee here as well, to find out more about how her roles intersect and learn about her work with the No Border Wall Coalition. This is a grassroots organization based in Laredo that works to counteract border wall construction through protests, education, legal action, and art. They sometimes travel to join forces with other allied groups in the Rio Grande Valley who share common interests in resisting the wall and protecting communities and the environment.
Symbolic of this moment in which Covid has brought so many of our spheres to overlap in one space: the home… Shellee sat down to speak with us from her kitchen where her kids were nearby doing their tasks. So we ask for your patience with the sounds as we move through our conversation with a true QUEEN!
Shellee IG/FB
https://www.instagram.com/leelaurent22/
https://www.facebook.com/artofshelleelaurent/about/
Cultiv-Arte Group:
No Border Wall Coalition
https://noborderwallcoalition.com/
And our interview on Laredo on the Line:
https://otherborderwall.medium.com/