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42|Immigrating to America with $6 to Flipping a Senate Seat: Mona Das' Story
What happens when you achieve your wildest dream, only to discover the system was designed to keep you out? Mona Das immigrated to the U.S. from India at eight months old with a family who had only $6 to their name. Growing up in rural Pennsylvania in the 1970s, she never saw leaders who looked like her, leaving her to believe her only acceptable career options were becoming a doctor or an engineer. But an audacious dream and a powerful moment of representation, seeing a yard sign for Pramila Jayapal, inspired her to eventually run for the Washington State Senate in a race where only 12…
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