“Nobody in the youth orchestras looked like me,” Madrigal said. “ I didn’t see any Latinos or African American kids in the orchestra.”

"I want the stories I tell to be about the people who made the brave decision to challenge the status quo," said Cardenas about joining LNN.

Three and a half years ago, Jones set foot in the gym for the first time, but her boxing journey dates back much earlier.

Creators of Latinx theater face a difficult challenge in bringing their productions to a largely monolingual community.

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“The news didn’t look like my community, like my tíos, tías, the people in the poultry factories, and the other people around me,” Sanchez-Smith said, “but they did make up such a big part of the community and were the backbone of it.”