Conectando Con Tu Voz Interior: Reflections from Latino Cultural Week

This past week, I had the honor of participating in Iowa City’s Latino Cultural Week, a vibrant celebration of art and heritage. When Miriam Alarcón Ávila- a photographer, multimedia artist, and visual storyteller, invited me to host a workshop, I was both humbled and excited. We’d first crossed paths years ago at the Iowa Writers’ House, while I was working on my piece for We the Interwoven, a literary series highlighting first- and second-generation immigrant voices. Though we connected on social media, life, as it often does, pulled us in different directions, until now.