Elisa Batista
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Elisa Batista is an award-winning bilingual blogger who is co-founder and moderator of the progressive parenting website MotherTalkers. In 2009, MotherTalkers was named by Ms. magazine a “favorite mom blogger.”

She also blogs and is an advocate for the family organization MomsRising.org, contributes a weekly column for Moms Clean Air Force, and as if she were not busy enough, she helped start an internationally-focused, Spanish-immersion school in Oakland, California, called Escuela Bilingüe Internacional.

Batista has won a Latinos in Social Media award for her blogging and activist work on Facebook and Twitter (@ElisaBatista). A journalist by training and profession, she has been published in Wired News in San Francisco, the Boston Herald, and several Boston-area weeklies and has been nominated for a Western Publications Association award for her work.

A native of Miami who is of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent, she now lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband and two children.

Blog Entries by Elisa Batista

Lack of Paid Sick Days May Claim Latino Lives

12 Comments | Posted December 13, 2011 | 12/13/11 06:08 AM ET

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If there is something I pride myself on it is my work ethic. The importance of hard work is something that was instilled in me by my parents who sometimes worked multiple jobs each to feed our family of six....

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Five Myths About California DREAMers

Posted December 1, 2011 | 12/01/11 06:09 AM ET

What is a California election without some good old-fashioned scapegoating?

We Californians are innovators in so many ways: home to the first personal computer, the nation's first recycling program and ground zero for the Americans with Disabilities Act. But we also have this nasty history of exploiting and scapegoating minority...

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Clean Air...Place and Race Matter

Posted September 18, 2011 | 09/18/11 09:54 AM ET

As a contractor, I am a jack of all trades: I write, moderate an online community and translate, usually from English to Spanish. Most recently, a friend and I translated a 110-page document released by PolicyLink and The California Endowment called, "Why Place and...

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Why Do Moms DREAM?

Posted October 18, 2010 | 10/18/10 09:55 PM ET

Odds are, if you are a mom, you're one of the 72 percent of women in the United States who support the DREAM Act.

But we want to know why.

First, a quick refresher: The DREAM Act is short for the Development, Relief and Education...

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Peaceful Revolution:Arizona's New Immigration Law and the "92 Percent Situation"

Posted May 4, 2010 | 05/04/10 05:44 PM ET

The conversation is everywhere -- Arizona has a new immigration law that requires police officers to detain anyone who "looks like" an illegal immigrant and fails to produce proof of American citizenship. And legislators in seven other states are now debating similar bills as are gubernatorial candidates in...

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