Silvia Barba

Ms. Barba works for City Year.  She was born here in Chicago and grew up in Little Village. Her favorite hobbies are cooking and spending time with her nieces and nephew. She’s the youngest in her family and she has three older sisters. When she was younger she would travel to Mexico to visit her family members and that she was a calm kid too. She says that most of her memories are over there.

She says that, “ Once I’m done with city year, I want to work as a social worker.” She wants to do this because she likes working with students and helping them out.

We asked her about what distracts students nowadays and she said social media is one of the things that distracts us. She says that, “It makes bullying easier, like there is a lot of people who say things online, that they wouldn’t say it to the persons face. And that really distracts you guys.”

Then we talked about school and college. Her parents were always there for her and supported her, and she had some teachers that would support her and push her to do good in school. She believes because of them that she probably wouldn’t be where she is now. She told us, “If you don’t go to college it’s okay but just figure out a plan for you to succeed, because you don’t want to go to college and then be stuck working in a place where you don’t want to be at.”