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Laura Chavez-Wazeerud-Din
By Cecilia Hijar for Latino Press
As every month, we´re pleased to share with you an exemplary story in “De Mujer a Mujer”. This story is based on love, strength and perseverance. Today´s article is about Laura Chavez-Wazeerud-Din, Branch Manager for Flagstar Bank in Downtown Detroit.
Chavez grew up in Southwest Detroit and developed at an early age a passion for the Hispanic Community and recognized that there was need for more Hispanic presence in the education system.
Laura, can you share about you, the woman, your family, values, goals?
“I am a product of Foster care, my sibling and I were placed into the system after my mother’s live in boyfriend was beating us so bad that we were hospitalized. This was the only life we knew and for the next five years we lived moving from house to house, family to family. I remember knowing that we had to stick together, no one was like us, every foster home we were placed in were black or white.