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Her mother grew up with no shoes. She s about to become a master’s scholar
Growing up in South Central L.A. meant ditching school, becoming a teen mom, and wrestling with her identity as an Afro-Latina experiences that made this UCR student want to major in public policy Author: Sandra Baltazar Martínez
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Sally Reyes grew up without shoes. She walked with bare feet through rough terrain, mud, and Belize’s hot dirt roads.
She became the first of 15 siblings to graduate from high school and obtain an associate’s degree. That landed a teaching job in Belize, where she taught for 12 years before coming to the United States in 1979. She left an unhealthy relationship and sought a better life for herself, two young daughters, and the baby boy she was expecting.