Ivania Herrera

Ivania Herrera

Hi, I'm a senior at East Los Angeles Renaissance Academy.
Poem: L.A Fireflies

Poem: L.A Fireflies

L.A city looks magnificent from the sky Houses, buildings and skyscrapers look like fireflies during night   It’s cold, palms dancing along with people walking down the heart of the City of Angels   Under the moonlight I see my city alive Nothing could look...

Want more money? Study!

Want more money? Study!

Today, Adrian got up at 4:30 a.m. to go to work all day and get paid based on his early decision of not attending to college and obtain a minimum wage. Often he regrets this decision. He’s 22 now and thinks, “If I would have gone to college I would have been out...

The life of a foreigner

The life of a foreigner

Ivania Herrera is a junior currently attending East Los Angeles Renaissance Academy, a school focused on Urban Planning and Design in East Los Angeles. She moved to the United States from La Libertad, El Salvador, about two years ago for personal reasons, and to start...