Category Archives: Personal Insights

Healing Dominicanidad: Intergenerational Trauma + DR Locals to Follow for BLM / Decolonizing Efforts

An overwhelming feeling of IMPOTENCIA engulfed me as I watched neo-nazi groups stop not one...

1 Comments

Life After the Bronx: 7 Important Things I Had to Learn Getting Out of the Hood

Let me start off with a blasphemous admission: I hated the Bronx. [Gasp!] A lot...

6 Comments

A woman sitting on a rock ground overlooking mountains of haiti
“No Me Cierres la Puerta!” Community vs. Independence: Conflicting Multicultural Values

One of the loveliest but trickiest things about growing up both Dominican and American is...

3 Comments

solo female travel africa
Africa Solo Travel: Why I Traveled Through Africa Alone

One hot and extra humid day I was sitting in my damp co-working space in...

18 Comments

Why I am “Dominican Abroad” and Not “American Abroad”

What does it mean to be an American? We are a 236-year-old relatively nascent country...

21 Comments