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When Kristian “Krissy” Salinas was growing up in Laredo and attending class at Texas A&M International Univerity, she was not expecting to help lead a nonprofit that connects people with disabilities to gainful employment.
She was headed toward political and policy work more than a decade ago when she started helping her mother, a former special education teacher, find a job for a man who had Down Syndrome. After hearing a lot of “no,” they were finally able to find him a job at a local college.