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Music Cont.

A week after taking THE DREAM TEAM

shots at President
Book Value Trump’s immigration
Leaders from the worlds policies on Jimmy UNDER 30
of business, academia, CLASS OF 2019
entertainment and Fallon’s Tonight Show VANESSA LUNA
politics share what’s on last January, Grammy-nominated COFOUNDER, IMMSCHOOLS
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their bedside table.
rapper She’yaa “21 Savage” Bin This Teach for America veteran’s
startup, which currently operates
Abraham-Joseph was detained for in Texas and New York, has
R ten days by U.S. Immigration & trained nearly 2,000 educators
E to help support 60,000 undoc-
N Customs Enforcement. Born in the
N U.K., Abraham-Joseph moved to umented students in those two
U immigrant-heavy states.
R Atlanta at age 7 with his family and
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N had overstayed his original visa by CLASS OF 2018
O Michael Milken many years. “He’s a gangster,” the REYNA MONTOYA
R FOUNDER AND CEO, ALIENTO
F Founder of the Milken 27-year-old performer said of the
Institute; Forbes 400 member A founding member of Teach
president in an October interview for America’s DACA Advisory
FACTFULNESS: with Forbes. “He don’t give a damn.” Board, Montoya created
TEN REASONS WE’RE WRONG ABOUT 21 Savage, a member of the 2019 Phoenix-based Aliento (Spanish
THE WORLD—AND WHY THINGS ARE Forbes Under 30, is a “Dreamer”—one for “breath”) to support Dreamers
BETTER THAN YOU THINK of an estimated 3.6 million people via extracurricular educational
workshops and arts programs.
by Hans Rosling
living in the U.S. after having arrived
undocumented as a youth. Among
them are nearly 800,000 who, by
meeting any of a number of crite-
ria (military service, a high-school
diploma, no criminal record and more),
were approved for President Obama’s
Deferred Action for Childhood Arriv-
als program (DACA)—an initiative
CLASS OF 2017
that Trump, who recently called some
DENISSE ROJAS MARQUEZ AND
Dreamers “no longer very young” and JIRAYUT “NEW” LATTHIVONGSKORN
Feeling down about reports of “very tough, hardened criminals,” wants
terrorism, disease outbreaks, COFOUNDERS, PRE-HEALTH DREAMERS

armed conflicts or natural di- to shut down. The Supreme Court The duo’s organization pairs undocumented students with

sasters? Take a break from the will likely decide their fate next year. jobs in a variety of medical professions. Latthivongskorn,

news to read Factfulness: Ten “Despite the fact that so many originally from Thailand, is one of six plaintiffs in the DACA
Reasons We’re Wrong About suit currently before the Supreme Court.
the World—and Why Things Are people want to see us fail, we are
Better Than You Think (Flatiron thriving,” says Sarahi Espinoza CLASS OF 2016

Books, 2018), by the late Swed- Salamanca, 30, a Dreamer from SARAHI ESPINOZA
ish physician Hans Rosling, SALAMANCA

who wrote the book after the Forbes Under 30 class of 2016.
being diagnosed with terminal “We are becoming doctors, teachers, FOUNDER AND CEO,
pancreatic cancer in 2016. Fa- DREAMERS ROADMAP
mous for his TED talks, Rosling lawyers, engineers, entrepreneurs The app she created helps
distills insights from his work in and so many other amazing things.” undocumented students
global health and regional de- Including hip-hop stars. For sure, with admissions, scholarships

velopment into a celebration and financial aid. It has been
of “the secret silent miracle of 21 Savage has it better than most of downloaded nearly 40,000
human progress.” He refuses his cohort. His average nightly concert times since its release in 2016.
to divide the world into devel- gross was about $50,000 around the
oped and developing nations. CLASS OF 2015
Instead, he describes four time of his detention; it has doubled MARIA GABRIELA
more-nuanced income strata, since, as he has become a cause célèbre. PACHECO
each continuously advancing.
According to Rosling, we fail to “I’m an example,” 21 Savage says. DIRECTOR OF ADVOCACY,
see these positive trends be- “People who didn’t think it affected DEVELOPMENT AND

cause of human instincts that certain people can say, ‘Wow, it affected COMMUNICATION,

blind us. His conclusion: Deploy THEDREAM.US
facts, not fear. “When we have him. Who would’ve ever thought that?’ ” In 2013, Pacheco became the BY ZACK O’MALLEY GREENBURG ILLUSTRATIONS BY AARON SACCO

a fact-based worldview we can Shown at right are a handful of first undocumented Latina
see that the world is not as bad Forbes Under 30 alumni who grew to testify before Congress,
as it seems—and we can see discussing U.S. immigration
what we have to do to keep up undocumented—and what they’re policy. She now helps run the largest college-access

making it better.” doing to elevate Dreamers nationwide. organization for undocumented youth.

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