Breaking Down The Youth’s Constitutional Rights With Diana Barbadillo

Diana (Di) Barbadillo(@deeeeezzyyy ) led a dynamic legal rights session at Know Your Rights Camp, grounding students in the Constitution and Bill of Rights while bridging the gap between theory and lived experience. She used real-world hypotheticals, especially scenarios involving recent protest encounters; to demonstrate how rights function in practice. Many students related personally, having faced police interactions themselves. Diana shared that her commitment to this work is rooted in her upbringing as the daughter of immigrants and her exposure to local police corruption. The session reframed trauma into knowledge, equipping youth with practical tools to understand, assert, and defend their rights confidently.

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