KQED-FM features alum Arleene Correa Valencia and her portraits of Napa workers

September 25, 2019
Arleene Correa Valencia discusses growing up undocumented in Napa Valley and how that experience has influenced her work.
KQED features CCA alumna and current graduate student Arleen Correa Valencia and her newest body of work.
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