When Mónica Ramírez and Olga Segura set out to change some of the harmful narratives about the Latino community in the United States, they decided the best avenue to do so would be through a festival ...

Blanca Uzeta O’Leary’s history with the Roaring Fork Valley runs deep. She has served on numerous nonprofit boards, including the Aspen Words Advisory Board, the Aspen Youth Center board, Voces Unidas ...

I created Raizado, the Latinx House festival. I was deeply disturbed by the recent headline that announced our festival’s return to Aspen. The newspaper’s decision to refer to people as “the help” was ...

A three-day celebration of Latino culture, power and history took place earlier this month in Aspen. Mónica Ramírez and her collaborators designed the Raizado Festival to broadly change the way people ...