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Marta Moreno is the Executive Director of El Comit{u1EBB}, a non-profit organization that focuses on helping underserved people in Longmont, primarily Latinos, solve legal problems, achieve citizenship, recoup wages, and overcome unfair treatment among other services. She talks about growing up in El Paso, Texas, the influence of nuns and priests had in her life, and her educational experiences there. She moved to Boulder in the mid-1970s when her husband was hired as a mechanical engineer for IBM. She talks about leading a movement to have the Catholic churches here offer Spanish Mass. Later she moved to Longmont. She describes discrimination against Latinos in El Paso and in Boulder County. She ends by explaining the history of El Comit{u1EBB}, and describes many of the ways in which it helps the community.