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{SPEAKER name="Sebi Medina Tayac"} Alyssa, go ahead.

{SPEAKER name="Alyssa Berrios"} Ummm, my name is Alyssa and I lived in Silver Spring, Maryland for my entire life
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and my mom-um-was actually born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey-but my grandma-um-came to America in 1969 from Pueblo, Mexico-
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and my dad is from El Salvador-
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and what I consider home is wherever my family lives.
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Um- Um- I live in a single-parent household with my mom, so I consider anywhere- I consider home anywhere where she is, so everywhere we've moved around, that's where my home is.

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{SPEAKER name="Cita Sadeli"} Hi, my name is Cita Sadeli- um- I'm also known as- uh- CHELOVE .
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I'm a mural artist in the district. Um, I'm here with my partner, MASPAZ.
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He'll tell you a little more about himself in a sec, but we're working on the art installation right behind you guys-
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so the- uh we're both graffiti based, but now practicing mural artists in the area- um-
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and we're bringing a little bit of that culture to-um- the Folklife Festival this year.
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Umm, my heritage - my father is-uh- Irish, Scottish -um- with some Creek Indian and my mother is from- um- Semarang Java, Indonesia
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um- but I also just did the DNA test, so I'm a whole bunch of other things which is interesting
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um- so you never know- you know what you're- with- what's really in your blood.
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But home to me is definitely DC. I grew up in PG county-um- but also in- umm- in Washington, DC-
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um- so I've seen a lot of change so that's- that's um definitely home but also in Indonesia although it's far away, that's home for me too.

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{SPEAKER name="Federico Frum"} Hello, Hello... My name is Federico Frum. I go by MASPAZ
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and -um- I'm collaborating on this experience over here with um- um- Misses CHELOVE right here - my partner.
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And we- uh- it's called [?Raza Mixta] which means-uh- mixed flavors.
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[?Raza] means mi- uh- flavor in- um- Java, I believe in Indonesia and-um - [?mixta] means mixed in Spanish.
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Um, I'm an artist here in- uh- local DC area. I live in Arlington, Virginia and- um- I come from-uh- Bogota, Columbia.
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I was adopted from an orphanage in Bogota, but I'm not even sure I'm really from Bogota.
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Some people say I might be from Bucaramanga which is another city- um- so that's kind of interesting.
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So- um- my Latino heritage plays a lot in who I am and I was raised by my mother who's sitting there in a nice purple shirt.
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Everyone say,'Hey,momma.'[clapping] That's Jenifer Frum. She adopted me- um- from Bogota, Columbia.
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Um, and she- as a single mother, she eventually married my father.
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Um, so I was raised by American family and I am Latino and I am an artist here in the local area.
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I've been painting murals for about 4, 5 years locally- um- and hope to paint a lot more, do a lot more stuff.
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Home for me, I guess you could say home is Arlington.
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Uh, maybe- I lived in New York for a little while. Home is Brooklyn, Bushwick, New York and I have family- yeah- and I have- uh- family friends in
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Bogota, Medellin, Quibdo- so I- I moved here- Columbia is also my home too.
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Transcription Notes:
The discussion is moderated by Sebi Medina Tayac, so I am assuming he is the first Speaker.