Meet The Fresno State Student Who Came To The Central Valley As An Unaccompanied Minor

KVPR | By Madi Bolanos

Published June 11, 2021 at 11:28 AM PDT

Marvin Cornejo came from El Salvador to the United States when he was 16 years old and eventually arrived in Mendota. Now he is attending Fresno State and working toward a chemistry degree.

FM 89’s Madi Bolanos reports on the expected arrival of unaccompanied minors to the small city of Mendota, in western Fresno County. She tells us about Marvin Cornejo, a young man who traveled as an unaccompanied minor from a small town in El Salvador to Mendota in 2016. He’s 21 years old now, living in Fresno and attending California State University, Fresno, where he is studying chemistry with the goal of becoming a family doctor.

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Madi Bolanos

Madi Bolanos covered immigration and underserved communities for KVPR from 2020-2022. Before joining the station, she interned for POLITCO in Washington D.C. where she reported on US trade and agriculture as well as indigenous women’s issues during the Canadian election. She earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a minor in anthropology from San Francisco State University. Madi spent a semester studying at the Danish Media and Journalism School where she covered EU policies in Brussels and alleged police brutality at the Croatian-Serbian border.

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