Name: Cienna Smith Age: 22 Home base: New York City, NY Tu país: Colombia & Curacao What’s been your journey to becoming an illustrator? I’ve been painting and drawing ever since I was very young. I’m inspired by the beauty of the Caribbean island of Curacao, where my parents immigrated [...]

Name: Camila Rosa Age: 32 Home base: São Paulo, Brazil Tu país: Brazil What’s been your journey to becoming an illustrator? I graduated with a degree in Industrial Design and started working in the field in 2010. At the same time, I joined a female street art collective that changed [...]

Name: Carmen Pizarro Age: 28 Home base: New York City, NY Tu país: I was born in the US but my family immigrated from Viña Del Mar, Chile What’s been your journey to becoming an illustrator?  My family embraced my artistic nature as a kid and encouraged me to pursue art [...]

Angelica Yudasto is an Indonesian-Peruvian artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Yudasto composes site-sensitive arrangements of ethereal tapestries and sculpted glass forms that act as a physical representation of her past traumas and inner anxieties. In her work, transient moments become static evocations printed on free-flowing silk. Latina’s [...]

Name: Elise Miguel Age: 24 Home base: Montclair, NJ Tu país: Cuba, Puerto Rico    What’s been your journey to becoming an illustrator? I majored in illustration/animation in college and have been freelancing since I was 18 years old. I knew that I wanted to pursue the arts since I [...]

Barranquilla, Colombia native Silvia Tcherassi is a Florida-based, fashion designer and hotelier that designs with flair. Tcherassi’s atelier is located in Miami and her designs have been presented during the official calendars of Paris and Milan fashion weeks. Moreover, her collections can be found across the Americas and Europe at any [...]

HBO Max has crafted a month-long program of events in celebration Latin Heritage Month. Programming throughout the month includes a free closing night event at the New York Latino Film Festival, a panel at the Latin Billboard Conference, a Pa’lante! pop-up event in Los Angeles, and more. Pa’lante! was founded [...]

For Claudia and Richard Berroa, owners of the Michelin-rated Claudy’s Kitchen, there is a concise motto that sums up their culinary success: “Hacemos comida que es buena, bonita, y barata.” A small Latino-owned take-out restaurant located on the upper boundary of the Bronx, where the 1 train ends and Westchester [...]

Photographer/director Natalia Mantini and designer/web-developer Lizette Ayala founded Solace to address the lack of practical resources available for marginalized folks, particularly within the realms of mental health support, healing, and wellness. Solace is designed to be a digital friend, connecting marginalized folks to therapy, meditation, care, healers, podcasts, and now, workshops. [...]

Oscar Nñ is a Honduran American creative, Brooklyn-based DJ, and a co-founder of Papi Juice, an NYC art collective that aims to affirm and celebrate the lives of queer and trans people of color. Oscar sat down with Latina’s Alissa Lopez Serfozo at Papi Juice’s studio in Bed Stuy to [...]