Sánchez was honored for her donations benefitting families and children at the border, with Bezos at her side and support from Eva Longoria, Kris Jenner and Henry Winkler.
“I never thought I would be up here,” Sánchez admitted, recalling growing up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she would go with her grandmother to her two jobs of cleaning homes and working in a restaurant. She said she got lost in the school system, as she was dyslexic, but no one knew what that was at the time. She later got a job as an accountant, before quickly getting fired and going back to school, where her journalism teacher took notice of her.
“She encouraged me to write a story, assuring me that punctuation and spelling didn’t matter. Despite my insecurities, I poured my heart into that essay. After reading it, my teacher uttered the words that would change my life forever; she said, ‘You’re not dumb, you just can’t spell,'” Sánchez continued. “It was at that point I was tested for dyslexia and everything changed. The doors that once seemed shut flung wide open.
She noted that it took just “one person who believed in me and I learned how to believe in myself. This is the essence of what This is About Humanity is all about, just treating people with love, compassion and humanity and giving them a crucial step up.” Sánchez ended with another acknowledgment to Bezos, saying, “And Jeff, I just wanted to say thank you for inspiring me to go out into the world and make a difference.
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