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Casa is hiring a new Benefits Coordinator!

Interested in working at Casa Marianella full-time? We're on the hunt for a great communicator and problem-solver to join the family at Team Casa as a Benefits Coordinator! If you're interested, please email our Co-Executive Director, Patti McCabe, at pmccabe@casamarianella.org with subject line 'Benefits Coordinator Application' a short summary about yourself and why you think [...]

By |2023-08-19T14:01:54-06:00June 19th, 2021|Events, In the News, Posada Esperanza|3 Comments

Family Life at Casa

During a recent Casa shift, I found myself in the middle of an argument between two residents. They were speaking (well, one was yelling) in Spanish, and while I can get by conversationally, I wasn’t quite able to understand what was happening other than that it involved one person taking out another person’s laundry from [...]

By |2021-05-15T12:01:28-06:00May 15th, 2021|Resident Stories|2 Comments

Casa Marianella Series: Resident Stories by Lily Dayanim

Today, we’re sharing just a few incredible resident stories, as part of a longer series from our Case Manager, Lily Dayanim. Lily is a talented photographer and digital storyteller who took the time to interview Casa residents and hear about their often terrifying, challenging and inspiring journeys to the United States. Each story is unique, [...]

By |2021-05-31T07:46:37-06:00May 3rd, 2021|Resident Stories|3 Comments

Former Casa family gifted new furniture for 2021

This holiday season, the Statesman published an article speaking about one of our beloved former Casa families: Deogratias Niyongabo, 38, his wife, Françoise Irankunda, 39, and their two daughters, Esther, 5, and Brianna, 3, from Burundi. Deogratis and Françoise, who moved into their own apartment with their children after leaving Casa Marianella, were gifted new, [...]

By |2020-12-29T13:35:46-06:00December 29th, 2020|In the News, Posada Esperanza, Resident Stories|0 Comments

“I learned more and more about the mental struggles that immigrants endure when they decide to leave their homes.” – Tony, Volunteer

When I started my internship at Casa Marianella I did not know what to expect. My professional background is in cooking and working in restaurants, that was my first career. But at the ripe old age of 35 I decided to finish my degree in Mexican American Studies, with the hopes of continuing on to [...]

By |2020-05-12T15:27:56-06:00May 12th, 2020|Volunteer Spotlight|0 Comments

Mother Country by Richard Blanco

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 [...]

By |2019-12-19T09:23:36-06:00September 2nd, 2019|Uncategorized|3 Comments

Casa Marianella In the News: Summer 2019

It's been a busy, busy couple months for Casa Marianella. News began to spread far and wide that Casa was over double it's capacity as the border crisis continued to see record numbers of migrants being sent to detention - over 144,000 migrants apprehended or denied entry into the U.S. in June — the largest [...]

By |2019-07-29T16:20:36-06:00July 29th, 2019|In the News|0 Comments
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