Latin Academy is a program educating younger generations of Latino heritage about the complex beauty of our origins. Our goal is to give them a strong sense of belonging, which will in turn create opportunities that can help foster a society of diversity and inclusion.

CHIMES, Community & Household Infant-Maternal Exposure Study, is a longitudinal pilot project, led by caregivers and researchers from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst, investigating the impact of the environment — beginning in pregnancy — on maternal and child health.

We hope that by studying how structural racism — often reflected in inequitable environmental and housing conditions — affects maternal and child health outcomes, we can shed light on the impact of environmental and neighborhood exposures on the health of both mothers and their children. 

Mazorca Colectiva fosters alternative intergenerational spaces of care, mutual aid, collective storytelling, and cultural revival. Through community workshops and a community garden located in East Elmhurst, Queens, Mazorca Collectiva centers ancestral practices and nourishing traditions for Indigenous children, Elders, community teachers, and immigrant community that are often overworked and highly exploited by racial capitalism.