

Featured CAWoman: Marisol Gomez
Featured CAWoman: Marisol Gomez, Image Consultant & Fashion Stylist Extraordinaire – and my cousin. She’s had a beautiful journey. She...


"La Pola"
She used her skills as a seamstress to the secure jobs with wives and daughters of royalists and officers of the opposition. This allowed...


Being Latina
The past two weekends I have been helping out at my family’s restaurant–El Rancho Colombiano in Union City, NJ–in the past I was not...


Sista, Sista!
(Alexandra): I don’t like telling people I’m Colombian. They respond by emphasizing on the “A” in Latina or Colombiana. It makes me feel...


Reflections on my cultural identity
My mom always reassured me that I am a Colombiana—no matter what. At seven years old I felt pretty good about this. It came from my mom...