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LA high school teacher poses for union poster and becomes the face of a movement

LOS ANGELES - Roxana Duenas is the face of the Los Angeles teachers' strike. Her image is plastered on billboards, classroom walls and the United Teachers Los Angeles website. It graced a full-page advertisement published earlier this month in the Los Angeles Times, which sometimes shows up on the paper's website.

The history and ethnic studies teacher is pictured head-on, her face framed by large glasses, her dark hair parted to one side. She looks confident, determined. She tells people to "Stand with L.A. teachers."

The poster of Duenas, 34, who teaches at the Math, Science, and Technology Magnet Academy at Roosevelt High School in

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