Dr. Laura Murillo went from a poor neighborhood in east Houston to a successful career and is now the president of the Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

“I didn’t have bicycle, so I’d borrow their bicycles,” Dr. Laura Murillo recalls of when she first moved to the United States as a child.

Murillo’s parents were immigrants from Mexico. She was the youngest of nine kids living in the Magnolia area, a low-income neighborhood in east Houston.

Murillo recalled her humble beginnings on a walking tour of the neighborhood in which she grew up.”*

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