Interview with CRISTINA IBARRA:

Your childhood ambition:

To be the youngest international entrepreneur in the world: some ideas included a kid’s bilingual musical group with my little sister, brother and cousins (like Timbiriche or Parchis), a party planning business, creating new game boards.

Something you treasure:

Spanglish.

Your worst habit:

Talking loudly on the cell phone.

The aspect of your work that’s most important to you:

Collaborating with talented artists.

Your first job:

“Working” at Yonke Juarez, my dad’s junkyard across the border.

Someone whose work you highly recommend:

Lourdes Portillo.