Immigration Reform in Focus: What’s at Stake for Latina Families
On a summer morning in Texas, Maria waits in line at a courthouse with her two children. Her eldest, a high school senior, dreams of studying engineering. Her youngest clings to her hand, asking why mamá looks so nervous. Maria doesn’t have the words to explain that a single decision
First in the Family: How Latinas Are Redefining the College Experience
For many of us, stepping onto a college campus for the first time felt like crossing a border into another world. The buildings were old, the traditions strange, the language of academia filled with jargon no one had taught us at home. Yet there we were—Latinas carrying backpacks heavy with
How Can Latinas Leverage Education for Generational Wealth?
For many of us, education has always been the dream our families carried across borders and generations. Abuelas who never finished grade school told us to study harder than anyone else. Parents who worked double shifts reminded us that degrees were tickets to doors they could never open. For Latinas,
What Does It Mean to Be Latina Today?
To be Latina has never been a single story. It has never been one language, one color, one country, one history. It has always been a mosaic—of Indigenous roots, African heritage, European colonization, and centuries of migration and resistance. But today, in this era of global diaspora, social media debates,
How to Preserve Culture Without Losing Yourself
The history of Latinas in the United States is a history of negotiation—between languages, traditions, and the unrelenting weight of assimilation. Each generation has carried forward pieces of identity while leaving others behind, sometimes by choice, often by pressure. At stake in this balance is more than nostalgia. Culture is
