Although her family attempted to make her a star in softball, Melaina Laurent, freshman film…
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A conversation with: Curious City reporter Adriana Cardona-Maguigad
Adriana Cardona-Maguigad is a radio journalist originally from the country of Colombia. She was a…
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ESTEFAN LINARES: Latinx: ‘Somebody outside of the community is telling people how to speak and how to address things in their language’
BORN IN HIGHLAND PARK, Ill., Estefan Linares is a 23-year-old alumnus of the University of…
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LUZ MARÍA COSTILLA: ‘I just learned about [Latinx] last summer, on Twitter’
LUZ MARÍA COSTILLA is a 21-year-old, bilingual, first-generation college student who is attending Columbia College…
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NADIA ALFARO: ‘We all have different cultures within our Latinx community’
BORN IN ELGIN, Ill., Nadia Alfaro is a 20-year-old who identifies herself as Mexican but…
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JOHNNY RODRÍGUEZ: ‘Latinx just generalizes all Latinos and Latinas’
PUERTO RICAN CHICAGO native Johnny Rodríguez, 60, lives in Logan Square and works as a…
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SONIA SAUCEDA: ‘I don’t have much familiarity with Latinx’
MEXICO-BORN Sonia Sauceda is the manager of the Panadería Nuevo León bakery, located at 1634…
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MELISSA MAGAÑA: ‘Latinx, ‘it makes sense to be inclusive’
CHICAGO BORN AND raised, Melissa Magaña is a 29-year-old Latina who lives in Brighton Park….