Ismael Perez
Columnist, audience specialist
Ismael Pérez is a columnist and audience specialist at the Chicago Sun-Times.
If a certain pant size can be a goal, a state of mind can be one, too.
I don’t know if it was the stress of the pandemic or his alcoholism wanting more from him, but my dad had been drunk for months.
Me di cuenta de que mis hermanos y yo habíamos vivido diferentes experiencias, lo cual podría explicar en parte por qué no veíamos las cosas de la misma manera.
We are privileged middle-class Mexicans. But there’s something that always brings us back to a subject we can never get away from — immigration.
Votantes de primera generación a veces necesitan ser empujados patrióticamente a participar en la democracia de su país.
First-generation voters sometimes need a patriotic push for them to participate in democracy.
Ismael Pérez y otros dos latinos de ascendencia mexicana explican qué los hizo elegir una específica identidad latina.
Ismael Pérez and two other Latinos of Mexican descent explain what made them choose their specific Latino identity. They share the same heritage but have different upbringings, values and skin tones.
This next generation of English learners will face the challenges I did and more. Remote learning means they’ll need help with Internet and computer skills their parents might not be able to provide.