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Aguilar, Francisco V.
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Alvarado, Sylvia, 1989-
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Farias, Jahaira
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Daniels, Ace
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Daniels, Raul
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Bustamante Adams, Irene, 1968-
Irene Bustamante Adams believes in the reinvention of oneself as the path to the future. And since coming to Nevada in 1990 she has proven that anything is possible.
She was born and raised in rural California where she worked the fields alongside her family members growing up. Her mother is a native of New Mexico, with family that dates back six generations; her father was born in Mexico.
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Castroverde, Alex de, 1972-
Alex De Castroverde group up proud of his Cuban ancestry and embraced his parents’ stories of coming to be Americans.
Both parents, Vivian and Waldo De Castroverde, were teenagers as Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba. Waldo actively fought against the Castro regime as a CIA trained paratrooper; during which he was arrested and was imprisoned for two years. Vivian was one of thousands of young Cubans who quietly entered the United States through Operation Peter Pan in the early 1960s.
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Carrillo, Antioco, 1967-
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Garcia, Gabriel, 1976-
In the mid-1980s, Gabriel E. Garcia (b 1976) was a grade schooler when his family relocated to Las Vegas from southern California. As so many others, his parents embraced the construction boom as harbinger of work opportunity. For young Gabe, it was all about going to school and making new friends. Within a couple of years, he was experiencing a Sixth Grade Center, part of Clark County School District’s plan to desegregate local schools. For his situation, riding the bus resulted in fewer hours that his parents worried about his wellbeing.
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Creative Studios Photography (Las Vegas, Nev.)
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