CHICAGO BORN AND raised, Melissa Magaña is a 29-year-old Latina who lives in Brighton Park. Her parents are both from Mexico; her mother from Puebla…
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BORN IN MICHOACÁN, Mexico, Tania Manrique was a resource specialist at a non-profit organization. “I’m Mexican with a dual citizenship,” she says, as she grew…
PANAMANIAN-BORN Gabriela Molina, 22, is a full-time international Columbia College Chicago student pursuing a bachelors in Acting. “I identify myself as a Latina woman,” and…
WHEN LISSETH MORAGA arrived to the U.S. from her native Guatemala she was 10 years old. Her family settled in Chicago, on the north side…
Both of Angela Tena’s grandmothers had heart attacks. But if the 36-year-old housewife from Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood said if she felt something going on, she…
Twenty young adults stood in a circle smiling and laughing about their favorite toppings on hamburgers one late Friday afternoon, the regular routine for students in Latinos Progresando’s Teatro…