What’s in a name? For a vibrant nonprofit performing arts center on the border of Chicago’s Logan Square and Hermosa neighborhoods, the answer is ... everything.
If you ask Wanda Nguyen about her career plans, she does not hesitate with her answer: She will graduate from À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, attend dental school and eventually become an orthodontist, she says. And then she smiles.
As a professor in À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ’s Department of , is passionate about the success of her students. But she knows firsthand that success in a university classroom doesn’t happen without plenty of preparation.
Eddie Bocanegra’s experiences have led him through a time of turmoil in his community to a life of service to his community. The eldest of five children born to immigrant parents, he experienced an upbringing many families in his circumstance experience: struggle.
