Today, “Dream Riders Across America,“ a national campaign fostering dialogue between communities with an emphasis on supporting one another, exploring intersections, and building unity across the immigrant rights, racial justice, and civic engagement movements, comes to a close in Dallas, Texas. Local organizations, including Mi Familia Vota, welcomed the Dream Riders – 12 emerging Asian American, Latino, and African American youth leaders – to share their personal stories and reflections from this unique leadership development experience.

On August 3, 2015, the Dream Riders Across America rallied in front of the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery with the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Alabama chapter of the NAACP to organize broad support for the building of a unified progressive network of young people, immigrants, and communities of color marching for immigrant rights, racial justice, and the need for civic engagement in our communities. The Dream Riders have been traveling on a bus from Washington D.C. to engage in these conversations with communities in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and now Alabama, before departing for Louisiana and Texas. The national bus tour was organized by the National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC), Korean American Resource & Cultural Center (KRCC), Korean Resource Center (KRC), Service Employees International Union (SEIU), SEIU United Service Workers West, and SEIU California State Council.