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...first to try. Even though the Anchorage, Alaska, native needs an interpreter for Telemundo interviews, he's become a Latino hero. "Just because he doesn't speak the language doesn't mean he isn't proud. He's just lazy," says his father, Carlos, whose parents were illegal Mexican immigrants. "It's become such an issue that he's just burned out on it. It was never an issue in Alaska. If you live in Alaska, it doesn't matter what color you are; you're unique. You're half crazy for living in Alaska...
Sergio J. Campos '00 only became chair of the Latino Political Committee, the political wing of RAZA, the Latino/ Mexican-American student organization, after the former chair took a semester away from Harvard. Timing, though, is everything...
Campos and RAZA were at the forefront of the anti-grape coalition, charging that grape workers in California, many of them Mexican immigrants, suffered under unfair working conditions...
...sticking point in the Mexican-American community," Campos explains...
Since then, Campos has served as president of RAZA, but after completing his term mid-junior year, he has since turned his attention to his studies. He wants to use his Harvard education to gain a leadership role in the Mexican-American community so that he is in a good position to address these issues in the future...