The highlighting is mine.
Here is a student at UCLA, a research assistant for Dennis' campaign. Anyone who already supports Kucinich will relate with her story. Others might find her worldview, as an immigrant, of interest.
http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?id=27538<snip>
"The primary is not a time for compromise," she said. "It's important to support him for his ideas. He might not win this year, but someone else with the same ideas might win four or eight years from now."
Shevtsov said the one thing she likes to tell others is to act on their hopes because decisions made out of fear, she said, have a tendency not to work. She called supporting Kucinich a matter of conscience for her and said she is following her own advice by acting on her hopes for a successful Kucinich campaign.
As an immigrant who came to the United States from Ukraine when she was 7 years old, Jane Shevtsov thinks of herself as a world citizen before being American or Ukranian. Shevtsov said she was drawn to Kucinich the first time she heard him speak because he talked about Americans as citizens of the world. Shevtsov said many people are realizing the increased interdependence of different countries in recent times and Kucinich's progressive policies are a reflection of the importance of viewing the world as a whole.
"I think if it weren't for the fear dynamic, a lot more people would be working for progressive ideas that support a more united world," Shevtsov said.
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