'Sports was a huge part of my life, but I always had to go outside of my community in order to access those resources,' said Cubs Charities executive director Alicia Gonzalez.
Alicia Gonzalez's story and life of service started in Pilsen but it's taken her to the North Side, where she's working for more equity in youth sports, as executive director of Cubs Charities.Few of us can say we knew our calling as kids, but Gonzalez did.
She split her childhood between the Pilsen neighborhood and Mexico; her parents never missing a chance to show her how fortunate she was."Sports was a huge part of my life, but I always had to go outside of my community in order to access those resources," she said."At six years old, I told my dad that it was unfair, and he said, 'Mija, do something about it.' And I said, 'I will.
"One of the central focus areas of developing that organization was connecting children, through sport, from all these diverse community across the city," she said. "We're trying to do something about that here at Cubs Charities by providing our youth with the same quality programs, the same quality coaches that a kid on the North Side can have," she said."We're providing that free of charge for our youth."
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