Petra Johnson

Professor, Marianne Arini

English 102
March 07, 2021
Directions for Proposal for Researched Interview Podcast/You tube Video

The person I interviewed is Roxana Cardiel. The topic I would like to expand on is
Broad-based Organizing. I chose to interview Roxana Cardiel, who is a leader with the
Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) Broad-based Organizer in Flagstaff and Northern Arizona.
Roxana organizes communities to be able to have a voice. She organizes and prepares
community leaders to be involved in community related issues which affect them directly.
Through this interview I wanted to share with the audience why broad-based organizing is so
important. I feel that this topic should be "out there" because community organizing is
instrumental in improving people's lives.
As a part of the industrial Areas Foundation Broad-based Organizer in Flagstaff and
Northern Arizona Roxana is an organizing member of the Northern Arizona Institutions for
Community Leadership (NAICL) which main purpose is to educate and inform as well as train
and build leadership “for civic participation across lines of race, class, age, religion, and organize
for issues that advance the common good (NAIC, homepage)”.
Under the umbrella of Industrial Areas Foundation Broad-based Organizing there are
several groups which collaborate all throughout the state and nation. The Industrial Areas
Foundation was created in 1940 it is considered the largest, longest standing network of local and
state faith and community-based organizations to promote support for community members
though leadership training development to be the voices in their communities to promote change.
“The IAF, which includes the West/ Southwest IAF and Metro IAF, currently works with
thousands of religious congregations, non-profits, civic organizations and unions, in more than
sixty-five cities across the United States and in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and
Germany” (IAF, 2020).

1. List of questions for my interview

1. How does it feel to work in front of others?

It can be hard at times because I am a little skied but also my job is to work with people and I
love my job. I am also happy doing my job.

2. Have you ever been involved with any lawyers? Either getting sued or suing
Yes, I have been involved with the attorney in the way I work with the community for
immigration law for example oh I have severe issues with friends but I never have any issue
problems.

3. What was the first to start this work and that changed your life? Why?
The first it really hard to work with resident who are going to lose their home at the home park
also and we need to found the way to help them and also that was so hard for me we were
looking for the city council to approve the change with a juried the proposal was mean that is
important because that show me how important that is poor communities.

4. Did you ever feel that it was difficult to do your work for what people actually liked?
Or did you only make it if you are happy with it.
That is both for me that is required that means to me what I am doing is good for me to be
happy and make others happy but only is possible if the community also cares about it and we
would work together. Only when those things come together. Do I know what is good?

5. What about others inspired you to make it your life?

To learn how other people, desire to be and to know how your background is and other people
can be there with you, others can work with you even if you make these things and between real
to come and able to come you help to be able to do your work. I think is it incredibly hard so and
remember myself how hard it is more most people nothing also be recognized and all of this
inspired our lives because we need to take our responsibility and making sure everything going
to work for yourself and others. And a process lived good lives to be limited a least the few
yeast the powerful yeast the we need to take responsibilities too. You know to be part of it you
need to work for you need to be able about their concert too. And asking what is important for
me but also what is important for you too. Because to be successful we need to work together it
one something we have in common.

6. Do you remember the first goal you had? If so, what was it? And did you reach it?
At least I see my first goal oh ...Christ wow! I think that was to people to trusting me and I think
so to believe in me when I say I going to help you to be real to be honest and I be ready too I
think we're also known where things are come to do reach one time any anything also and be
able to trust each other to be there.
7. What would you say to a somebody on the street that asked you, “me and my
organization are trying to get our work out there, how could we do that, and why does
that work?”
So what kind of legalize we going to and that process that almost in the right place you find if we
work together you trust me and I trust you every going to come together if you take the place
and when you work for that together then you created relationship you created the people going
to trust and other understand and other will be part of this and other going to work with you and
you have to honored to that it for me be ready to take able to spaces with people could be with
you and by others and you need to be a very good listen. That is a quote? When you speak you
going to said something you already know but when you listen you going to learn something you
did know in that is exactly what you need to know it is amazing part you need to know

8. How many places have you traveled due to your work? Which place was your
favorite?
My favorite place? To be honest with you all this place I am going to work I don't have time to
explore and I go to California, Nevada, Utah, Texas and New Mexico. I go is to learn is to have
a seminary to be sure I understand and be able to successful but you know everywhere is I
going because I think every place is nice if I only be in the airport because almost all the time I
plane and the people how they are dresses what kind the food how we learn something new in
every place.

9. Was it hard to form a family but also hard to build your career?
Yes, very much you know to create other happy and this is why I likes to work 7/24 with my
community they need my energy specialized between home and kids to make activities and
made food to put in the table and learn how it is the each have the our place sometimes it is full
for one time and other but I try to make them happy that is so hard for me but I think I did better
on it because my work and also like a mother for sure.

10. Do you feel that you have inspired others?

I hopefully I have people who believe in myself i find people that believe they have right too but
not that but demand for they rights demand because they think they have the relationship to try
to build a hard relationship with others but I hope so I try because my job to think that is possible
because you have to imagine the goal to share with other so I hopefully so.
11. How would you describe your work?
As a leader of acil Organized my issue and be focused and build a power organization and
because the ability you make things happen issue that institution and most care about it
specialty in this time with the pandemic.

12. What keeps you acting in today's time?

How it is always a lot of change are happening for me is always especially in this time with
covid-19 how many communities as been to be trusting and don't have a vaccines and it come
to covid relive economics relive and notify the in it remind a fact in this cause of people need
help and people still need a better job and people still need

13. Through the years how has your image changed?

I think one of the things I try to work out is when I started to this I started like a leader the nacil
is become more about me that my institution us a leader to work for that is organized I can to
attach to and been involved in my most important is liberal find people that I can take care about
and how to build the skills and think about it and approach that like a leadership bringing people
together speak to the nation to the more profession institution.

14. What are some goals you still are planning on reaching?
To be organized at NAIC the goal to be I wants to be passion and be recovered and some level
and having the power to one to be recognizing for NAIC they know they are powerful they know
people from some many institutions the thing is finding who is intriguing to the institution to
know the kind the work you do or the kind of work they want to be done or the kind of work that
is after you or the want go to NAIC because the most ability you have.

15. What is something you have created and is one thing you constantly think about?
Even this community is so important t6o me because my parents are immigrants and a lot of my
parents are immigrants this take special place in my heart because I think something that is to
see his face out a voice in the table with emigrate community they think desert they take care
that to be powerfully leader to affect see this even it this is a realized common things at the
begin against them because the system they have too much to work with those a the fight and
this more of those compose know they be safety

16. What was one kind of advice you've received and stock with.
I been lucky with this work because i know people they give to me a lot of advices the have
doing and they have more powerfully ways the I have so I think to be honest with this kind of
advices because you know to make life so much better and is necessary work for because so
many people try you know to be enjoined and power those I always looking for advice always
looking to see who can help me to understand the tuition and how to think about where I doing
about to me understand how my best work us a leader I can be a create environment and
yourself to be credible really and ready the change happened. Where I can help people, you
know secret of been part of my live and the whole of institution in general what kind of staff build
lives for better improve live imagines what kind of thing do you do what kind of things can
change the world and making a better place. Wow thank you so much.

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