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If you met him delivering your pizza from Laventina’s Big Cheese Pizza on the Peninsula, you’d never guess that the good-looking, affable Vinicius “Vina” Tinoco’s “other job” is making a positive impact on hundreds of young lives every day.

Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 30-year-old Vina immigrated to the United States in January of 2006 to start a new life. Through hard work and determination, he has also has made a difference to literally hundreds of at-risk youth through an innovative skateboarding program he founded called Next Up Foundation  …  More

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