Julianna’s Story: Why Can’t They Just Speak up?

Julianna’s story of hard work and perseverance is familiar to many women. As a child, her and her sister navigated extreme poverty, sometimes having to live in homeless shelters with their mother. Julianna’s story is complex in how her experience of poverty intersected with abuse. Julianna is now a mother herself, working hard to obtain self-sufficiency while coping with the trauma of the past.