Interesting in working at Casa Marianella? At Casa, we are family. From monthly celebrations at Convivio to staff bonding activities and the chance to make a real impact on the immigrant community in Texas - we love what we do and we love doing it as a team. Please see below for our full job [...]
Here at Casa Marianella, we are overwhelmed with gratitude by all the recent support from businesses and organizations here in ATX, especially during the storm and Amplify Austin. Words cannot express our appreciation, but here’s our attempt to give you all a big shout out! There are so many of you to thank individually that [...]
I turn onto Gunter street, enveloped by the stifling heat of Austin in August. I couldn’t tell you if I’m sweating from the heat or because I’m nervous for my first day serving at Casa Marianella. Despite my attempts to arrive with a completely open mind, I repeatedly ask myself, “Will I be able to [...]
To love a country as if you’ve lost one: 1968, my mother leaves Cuba for America, a scene I imagine as if standing in her place—one foot inside a plane destined for a country she knew only as a name, a color on a map, or glossy photos from drugstore magazines, her other foot anchored [...]
My name is Julian Root, and I am 32 years old. I grew up in and around Philadelphia, and was raised Jewish by a mother with eastern European roots (mostly Lithuanian and Romanian). After my parents separated when I was 11, I lived with my Catholic father, who was a self-declared 'mutt' of heritage. His [...]
250 people gathered on April 17, 2019 for Casa Marianella's annual gathering sponsored by the Board of Directors. We celebrated resettling 425 people, almost all of whom went into safe and secure housing. In attendance were lawyers, ESL teachers, volunteers, donors, staff and friends of Casa Marianella. We were happy to honor Mama Sana Vibrant [...]
We're sharing 10 powerful excerpts and quotes from immigrant writers of all different backgrounds and faiths, in hopes that it will help inspire more change in the way we perceive and interact with our immigrants brothers and sisters. "you have to understand, that no one would put their children in a boat unless the sea [...]
Author: Katharine Poor Upon crossing the border bridge between the United States and Mexico early last summer, a family of three from the Democratic Republic of the Congo told Border Patrol agents that they needed to apply for political asylum. They were processed, told to wait in a cold holding room, and quietly shipped to [...]
Happy Saturday, Casa Family! Now might be the perfect weekend to snuggle up with a book. We wanted to share with you 5 interesting books detailing the immigrant experience. As a whole, the immigrant experience is deeply personal and the stories shared by immigrants are incredibly unique - but can also fundamentally be similar when [...]
We carry tears in our eyes: good-bye father, good-bye mother We carry soil in small bags: may home never fade in our hearts We carry names, stories, memories of our villages, fields, boats We carry scars from proxy wars of greed We carry carnage of mining, droughts, floods, genocides We carry dust of our families [...]