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About Yajaira Garcia Meza

Yajaira Garcia Meza grew up in Soledad and Greenfield most of her life. She graduated from Greenfield High School in 2016 and is about to finish her Bachelors of Arts in Political Science, with a minor in Public Policy, at the University of California, Berkeley.

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