“Why Not Me?” A Latina Entrepreneur’s Journey From Michoacán To Los Angeles

“I used to visit my grandmother every year in Michoacán,” said Rosalía Hertz, owner of World Empanadas in Los Angeles, “but now I haven’t been back for over 30 years.”

Why?
“After my grandmother passed away, I just couldn’t bear to go back,” she said. “The last time I was there I saw that the streets I once knew had changed. There remained only a shadow of the childhood glimmer I once knew.”

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