Category: Adult Education
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Laura Ocon
Originally from Torreón, Coahuila, Mèxico, Laura Ocon came to Chicago more than 30 years ago. A wife and mother of three children, she found it challenging to get important healthcare information in her native Spanish. After starting school, her daughter increasingly served as the family translator. Ocon promised herself that as soon she had time, she…
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Yozgyul Mustafova
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Sharlise Harris
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Selina Hayes
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Melania Aldama
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Alid Alvarado
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Jesse Brito
Jesse Brito, a recent graduate of Malcolm X College, says that a sign on a CTA bus led him to City Colleges – not literally though. When Jesse saw the sign, he had been working in a factory for almost nine years. He had always thought about going back to school, but a conversation with…
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Qianhong Ni
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Chin Yeng Low
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Imran Mohammad
Imran Mohammad, a student at Truman College and the recently-elected Student Trustee for City Colleges of Chicago, looks forward to representing his peers from every City College in his new position. The Uptown resident, who started at Truman in 2018 by taking high school equivalency courses, promises to bring a unique perspective to the role…