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Soaring High, Staying Rooted

“Volando alto sin olvidar de dónde vengo,” a popular Spanish saying that can be translated in English as “Flying high without forgetting where I came from,” describes

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Painting A Better Future

A rosary and his mom’s blessing are all Roberto Oran took when he left his small village in Mexico. His faith kept him going, but his belief in higher education […]

Alicia Alvarez Mon

A Ticket To Opportunity

Alicia Alvarez-Mon found the sense of freedom she was looking for as she gazed over the roofs of Paris from her small attic room. She had just started her first […]

Sankar Raman

A Focus on the Possible

For José, the doors to the American dream began to close when he was 15. Due to his legal status he was not allowed to get his driver’s permit