San Antonio author Shea Serrano pays tuition for 2 undocumented UTSA students with book proceeds

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For San Antonio author Shea Serrano, the giving just doesn’t stop.

After a Twitter-driven mission to help people pay their bills during the pandemic-induced financial crisis and his successful fundraising drive for the San Antonio Food Bank, the dude is at it again.

Serrano tweeted Monday that, using funds raised from a book he offered on Gumroad for free, he called up UTSA and paid off senior-year tuition for two undocumented immigrant students.

The best part? The book in question is his joke treatise A Difficult Conversation: How to Talk to Trump Supporters.

“as a joke i made a book about how to talk to trump supporters — it was free — some people still paid money for it — so larami & i hit up @UTSA — we asked them to find us two undocumented immigrant students who were juniors — then we paid off the tuition for their senior year,” Serrano’s tweet reads.

But that’s not all — Serrano also got in touch with San Antonio nonprofit the Charles Roundtree Bloom Project, an organization that works with Black Outside, and gave them $20,000 to take 40 kids to Big Bend National Park.

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