Jessica Castillo
Proudly of Salvadoran descent, my grandfather came to the United States during WWII due to the shortage of workers. He was a mechanic by trade, and headed to California to work specifically on boats. He then sponsored my dad to come in 1951, and he was enrolled in the US Army one week later. He didn’t speak a lick of English, yet he eventually mastered it after 2 years of serving during the Korean War. My mother came in 1958 in pursuit of the American Dream. She was sponsored by a family member in El Salvador to immigrate to California. Upon arriving, she stayed with an aunt while she worked her way into a data entry position with the Army and Airforce. Prior to that she earned an AA in Computer Sciences. We are so grateful for the opportunity to have been able to grow up in the best country in the world. Our family is fiscally conservative, which mostly aligned us with the Republican Party. My family was lucky enough to have left El Salvador through waves of Communist threats, but we housed many family members who would have potentially been in danger. My parents also sponsored those who qualified to come here to escape the threats of communism. Jessica is a proud Penn State Alum. She has lived the American dream and is grateful for the opportunities this country offers.

Isabel Goldvarg

Isabel is an U.S.A. naturalized citizen born in Colombia, South America. She is a business
administrator that came to the U.S. on a work visa and while working here met the love of her life.
Isabel is also a mother, a military wife, and home maker. Most of her work career before becoming a
wife and mother, was in the insurance industry and sales. One of her previous jobs took her through
most of south America and the Caribbean. So much traveling and moving with her family, allows her
to understand different Hispanic cultures and as an U.S. citizen she also understands the needs
and struggles of adaptation to new the environment within our Hispanic community. She lived in
Colombia during the wars of the cartels and knows through firsthand experience the terrible
influence that communist guerrillas have in the identity and security of a country. While working in
Venezuela, she witnessed firsthand the crumbling of the Venezuelan Economy and the poverty and
crime that followed Chavez socialist regime. She joined the RNHA to preserve her new home,
United Estates of America, as the land of Opportunity and Freedom that she knows and loves.