Aimee Santos-Lyons

Western State Center

Aimee Santos Lyons is the Strong Families Northwest Project Manager for Western States Center.

Motherhood: An Exercise in Fear Management and a Vision for Courage

What if all the grassroots groups who work with the families who are consistently pushed to the margins and thrown under the bus talked about their causes as if they were all connected? What if we worked as if we were facing the same stigma and hate? What if I, in my parenting, felt connected to immigrant mamas fighting to reclaim their community? What if I, in my resistance, understood deeply my relationship to mothers who lose their children to juvenile justice, foster care systems, and/or incarceration?