When I was six years old, my parents, Marisol and Denis Calderon, my younger brother Desmond Calderon, and I lived in a predominantly white neighborhood in Philadelphia. One night in 1996, my father visited the corner bar in our neighborhood with his cousin, Julio Maldonado. As my Peruvian father and his cousin arrived, a gang of […]
Author Archives: Jesenia Calderon
Jesenia Calderon is a 28-year-old U.S citizen from Pennsylvania. She is of Peruvian and Puerto Rican descent and is a U.S. Air Force medic veteran. She currently works as a registered nurse in New York City. All she wants is justice for her family.
