At some point in her adult life, she began to tell the story. The precise timeline of her transition from a private individual who happened to have been part of a significant legal case to a public advocate for that case’s recognition is not fully documented in the public record. What is clear is that she became, over the 1990s and 2000s and into the 2010s, the primary living link to the events of the 1940s — the person who had been in the school, whose brothers had been turned away with her, whose parents had organized and funded and persisted through years of litigation.
Her advocacy took a specific form. She spoke at schools — elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, colleges. She told students about her parents, about the enrollment rejection, about the five families and the lawyer and the trial and the ruling. She was invited to Harvard. She spoke at commemorations and community events. She participated in the development of the documentary film about the case. She accepted the awards and recognitions that accumulated in the 2000s and 2010s.
One of the things she has consistently said is that she wants her parents to receive the recognition they earned. “I told my mom I will make sure everyone knows what you did,” she has said. The sentence captures the specific emotional and moral structure of her advocacy: it is filial, focused on Gonzalo and Felicitas rather than on herself, oriented toward making visible what was invisible for too long.