UCLA student leader, daughter of immigrants, bridges gulf between two worlds

This young woman will always remember her life before she was a student at UCLA. She is graduating now as UCLA student body president. - - Donna Poisl

By Hector Tobar

The No. 2 bus is packed each weekday morning for the journey westward. In East Hollywood and Echo Park, many of those getting on are hotel workers, janitors, domestics and nannies headed for jobs in Bel-Air and Westwood.

Cinthia Flores knows that bus well. When she was around 14, she sometimes took it on Saturdays with her Salvadoran mother to Beverly Hills. They would get off on Doheny Drive and go clean houses together. Esperanza Monterrosa says her daughter would do the "easier" jobs: cleaning windows and scrubbing stoves.
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