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Carmens work on the Earn Sick Time campaign helped collect over 52.000 signatures in support of earned sick time and was the first successful citizenpetition campaign in Orange County. In addition to her organizing work. Carmen arranged meetings and educated legislators on voting against sick time preemption. In 2013. Carmen started working with National Council of La Raza (NCLR) to educate Members of Congress on the need to support comprehensive immigration reform (CIR). During the CIR campaign. she worked with community leaders and local elected officials in Orange. Osceola. and Polk counties by conducting local Hispanic media interviews. organizing public letters of support. and facilitating congressional legislative visits.