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Valery Pineda

Chicago’s Next Voices guest columnist
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Valery Pineda, a child of Mexican immigrants, is a Sun-Times’ Chicago’s Next Voices columnist.

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Chicago’s Next Voices
From Archer Heights to downtown Chicago, Chicago's Next Voices columnist climbed that steep ladder
Southwest Side native Valery Pineda writes of how she never thought the doors of the downtown skyscrapers would be open to her — and how she got there and found her career.
By Valery Pineda