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Our Otherness is Our Strength: Wisdom From the Boogie Down Bronx releases this summer 2023. Courtesy of Andrea Navedo.
By Brenda Fernanda VeranoAs featured on
In 2018, 30 years after graduating from Dewitt Clinton High School, Andrea Navedo, widely known for her role as Xiomara, “Xo,” Villanueva in the CW’s American Telenovela, Jane the Virgin, was invited to give the commencement speech at her alma mater.
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