“If I hadn’t seen people run into the desert and never see them ever again, and to this day I don’t know whether they survived, perhaps I would be a believer in the American Dream,” says Javier Zamora (@jzsalvipoet), an award-winning Salvadoran American poet, author and activist. His memoir, “Solito,” chronicling his nine-week journey at the age of 9 to the United States from El Salvador, by boat, bus and foot, to join his parents in California, was released in September. “If the system is only supposed to work for the less than 2 percent, or less than 1 percent. If that is the dream, I don’t want any part of it.” Read his interview through the link in our bio. (📷: @apollofields)