Marius Marinescu Finds a Vision—and His Voice—at SLU Marius Marinescu is living the American dream. “Whatever that is,” he said. “I’m still trying to figure it out.” Marius was born in Brasov, Romania, in the historic region of Transylvania. There, he said, “I grew up in a totalitarian regime where I was inducted into the…

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Miriam Uribe Martinez has already come a long way. And she has no intention of stopping now. Born in Mexico, Miriam’s parents brought her to the U.S. when she was seven. She grew up in California, undocumented, like her parents. “My parents worked in factories, in people’s homes, places where they couldn’t complain about unpaid…

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Jimmy Bosco is from the working class and he is damn proud of it. “I always want to be a member of the working class,” he said. “That’s who I am. I’m rank and file, and I like working and being with the rank and file. I don’t feel like I necessarily need to be…

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Yasmina Moore is doing it for herself. But she’ll be helping a lot of other people in the process. A candidate for the Master’s degree in Urban Studies, Yasmina says she enrolled at SLU “because I wanted to learn something. I love my job and I’m successful at it but I felt like my learning…

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