By Patricia Schwartz / El Inde Long before I met Alexander Soto in person, I knew him by his onstage persona: MC Liazon of the Phoenix-based hip hop group Shining Soul. I remembered seeing him rapping in a music video with the U.S.-Mexico border wall as a backdrop. In the video for the single “All…
By Izzy Hill / El Inde Olivia Lai grabs a bold, fine-tipped black pen and begins to map out her next custom design. She is sitting in her green and white apartment overlooking the University of Arizona campus; she has a perfect view of the Harville building and one of the main university paths. Her…
By Jack Jurgens / El Inde On a Monday in early February, Juan Antonio Suazo, co-owner of Taquerias Juanitos, had just woken up to the early morning sun shining on his face. For Suazo, it signaled that work needed to be done, and another day began, another fight for survival. It is the only thing…
By Jacqueline Canett / El Inde Mariana Valencia remembers the day she got the best news any person on the lung transplant waitlist could receive. She was on the phone with one of her best friends when an anonymous phone number called from area code “720” — Denver. She answered the phone and heard, “Hey,…
By Bradley Anderson / El Inde Jeong Yeol Yoon is a professor and president of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Arizona. Originally from Seoul, South Korea, he studied biomedical engineering in Los Angeles at UCLA, working on lab-on-a-chip and biomaterials and then finding his way to Tucson where he furthered his…
