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ENTRY LEVEL
Peruvian Immigrant Finds a Better Life, and Nonprofit Career, in California
I was born in Lima, Peru, and was the eldest of four children. My father was a taxi driver and my mother was a stay-at-home mom. I always knew that I was going to come to the United States — I had an uncle in Miami and an aunt in California — to get a job so I could send money back to my family.
In 1995 I arrived...