I am the owner of Las Milpas LLC, a Mexican restaurant and Latino grocery store in Baraboo. Photos by Hedi Lamarr Rudd My day starts at 6:30, getting my daughter to school and heading to my store. In the afternoon I pick her up, we eat dinner together, and then I go back to the …
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I am a Dominican Sister of Sinsinawa whose congregation — a religious community of Catholic Sisters — is based in the southwestern Wisconsin town of Sinsinawa. Photos by Tyra Leonard Born and raised in Big Spring, Texas, I am also Mexican American and a third-generation American. My parents are devout members of their Catholic parish. …
“It is a blessing to live in community, to love and serve God and God’s people.” Read More »
I was born in Madison in 1970. My mom is Jewish and from Long Island. My dad is Catholic, Mexican, and from Chicago. They met in the VISTA program (Volunteers in Service to America) and settled in Madison. Photos by Gary Porter “In the ‘70s and ‘80s, Madison felt magical to me. At age ten …
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I was born and raised in Kyle, Texas. My mom was extremely creative and crafty and just loved making pretty things. Photos by Colleen Bies Growing up in the projects and being raised by a single mom for most of my childhood, my siblings and I never felt like we were missing anything. My mom …
When my family first came to Green Bay, it was a big change. I came from the second largest city in Mexico to a small town, and the adjustment was difficult. Photos courtesy of Rogelio Contreras Just the language difference was more difficult than anything. All I knew about Green Bay was that summers were …
Ever since I was young, I would always be singing. I remember there was a children’s music record that I loved called Canticuentos that my parents would play for me. I knew all the lyrics. Photo courtesy of Juliana Mesa I would always sing along, oftentimes playing on a little Casio keyboard, and after the …
I wasn’t always Barby the book fairy. I was born and raised on the South Side of Milwaukee. Photos courtesy of Barbara Cerda My parents are immigrants from Mexico, my mom grew up here and my father came when he was seventeen. I became a teen mom when I was fifteen years old, and again …
Every day, people are released from prison and return to communities across the state to rebuild their lives. Wisconsin has an incarceration rate of 676 per 100,000 people and, notably, imprisons Black men at a higher rate than any other state in America. The barriers people face when they are released can be overwhelming and are considered partially responsible …
My parents were both immigrants from Mexico. When my mother was working, her brother Hector was our babysitter. He was always a jokester, he was like one of the kids. Photo courtesy of Juan Jimenez He taught us to love films and music. Big band swing, salsa, merengue, anything you can dance to, he really …
I’m from Mexico, from the state of Morelos. I came to Plover when I was 21. All of my family who lives here told me Wisconsin is the best state to live, a place where family is a priority, where nature can be loved. Photo courtesy of Lili Vera They were not wrong, Wisconsin is …
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My parents first came to Wisconsin as migrant workers back in the ‘40s. My father’s heritage is Hispanic and Comanche, and we think my mother was Apache and Hispanic. Their prior place of residence was San Antonio, Texas, which they tried to escape because they were so poor and food was so scarce. Photo taken …
I grew up in Cusco, Peru, which is an incredible place to grow up. My great-grandfather was the president of Peru and then my dad was the mayor of Cusco. People come to Cusco from all over the world. We grew up entertaining all kinds of people in our house. We always knew that we …
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