Merlin Peña

Merlin Peña is a salvadoran who came to the United States in 1980. Her story resembles the hardhships that inmigrants go through during their adaption years to their new enviroment. Thus it shows the development of their status in the United States if they work hard to achieve succes.
Peña has been involved in community service. She ran for vice-president for El Salvador in the past elections. She is an example of a succesful woman in America. She talks about the importance of working hard and erasing the stereotype of salvadorans in the international scenario.
She is our first inmigrant story on this podcast series of “inmigrants in the United States”. The series will focus on salvadorans, one of the largest hispanic minorities in the United States. Their work is not only important for the United States but for the developemt of El Salvador.