Journal Entry: Maritza Navarrette Mota-04/10/2025

Journal Entry

I would love to have the opportunity to meet some successful or influential people that could help mentor me. To allow me to further both my knowledge and my chance to be successful in making my dreams come true. I come from a small town in southern New Mexico. Before I was old enough to take full advantage of the university there a hard life and well intentions lead me to prison at a very young age. 11 yrs later I honestly don’t know any of the professors from there anymore or much of anybody else from my community. I have not had anybody to keep me in contact with the free world. My Jefita, that is my grandmother, has always thought it best to isolate me from the world. I have not had communication with anybody outside besides her and my children or close family in my whole bid. People and platforms like you and yours, has not always been as accessible as now. So now that I am on my way out the door of this place and am having an opportunity like the one this platform might present for me, I am hoping to make the most of it. If there are any good people that would have the time and has it on their heart to reach out & mentor me, I would be most appreciative of the Blessing that would be for me. I came to prison barely turning 21. Without no resources to stay in contact with the world coming home is a bit stressful. So I am looking for all the help I can get from all the places it may come from. I am ready to show my family and children, and mostly myself, that I am not the same simple young girl who came to prison mad at the world. I want to be the woman, mother, etc that not only they deserve, but that I deserve to be for myself. Any and all help is appreciated!