Education Instead of Chaos: A Q&A with Sidewalk School Cofounder Felicia Rangel-Samporano

"We never take away hope. I mean, that's our whole thing. If you don't have it, then what are we doing this for?"

Jun 18, 2025

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Felicia Rangel-Samporano answers questions about the CBP One app in a Reynosa migrant camp in February 2023. (Photo credit: Melissa del Bosque)

In 2019, Felicia Rangel-Samporano, a stay-at-home mom in Brownsville, Texas, joined forces with Victor Cavazos, a software engineer, to start the nonprofit Sidewalk School and provide Montessori-style educational…

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