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Valery Pineda

Chicago’s Next Voices guest columnist

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

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