Name of Interviewer: KimMarie Pozar

Name of Person Interviewed: Maria Giuriato

Date: August 23, 1999

1. Where are you from?
Salinas

What are the most significant moments you have experienced in your life?
The births of my two children and a near death experience during the premature birth of my son.

2. What is your life like now?
Exciting. I have made decisions towards bettering my self.

Children?
Two

Working?
I am the Administrator for the Monterey Community Action Agency.

School?
I am full time with 16 units.

What is your Joy?
The changes in my life and my family.

What are your commitments?
To enjoy my family. To find avenues to create social Justice.

What are your values?
Family, honesty, ethics.

3. What is something that has happened that is important to you?
Several things have made me more self reflexive recently; loss of family members, domestic violence, divorces of friends. They have caused me to reflect on my own life.