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Posted inKnow Your Neighbors

Know Your Neighbors: Meet Karen Borja, a Community Organizer Building on the Success of Her Farmworker Parents

Karen Borja is a warm, open person who seems genuinely glad to meet you. It’s a personality that explains Borja’s success as a community organizer—helping people learn how to help themselves by changing what isn’t working in their environment. Borja, 30, and her husband, Blaz Gutierrez, are residents of Indio. She was born and raised […]

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