NEWS: Human rights attorney @lyciaora resigns from @latinojustice after reports accused of posing as a Latina. @nypost: “claiming Puerto Rican and Colombian heritage for over a decade, Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan is actually a white woman from Georgia” nypost.com/2021/01/07/hum… 
.@lyciaora was quoted as saying: “I am racially white, and have always said that. However my cultural identity was formed as a result of my family, both chosen and chosen for me, and that has always been Latinx,”
More from her: “My identity is my most authentic expression of who I am and how I pay honor to the people who have formed me since I was a child.”
“My biological parents were born in the United States, & I was raised with only one of them...Yet the Colombian family who I grew up with and who were responsible in grand part for raising me, who helped form my character & identity were from many different ethnic identities...”
“... and backgrounds.”
Here is a statement from @lyciaora following her resignation
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