A photograph of the future president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association shows a young Carlina Tapia-Ruano with her sister, holding the Cuban flag in one hand and the American flag in another. "It is my favorite photograph," Ruano, an adjunct law professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law at 565 W. Adams St., said recently. "It shows if a little immigrant girl from Cuba can make it, anyone can." Ruano came to the United States from Cuba when she was 5. "It was a nervous, new experience," she recalled. "Our future was completely uncertain. We had no money, no language skills, and no contacts." And by most accounts, Ruano has made it. The 51-year-old Chicago attorney has been practicing immigration law for more than two decades, and in June, Ruano made history when she was installed as the first Hispanic president in the 60-year history of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.