Fernanda Suarez is an artist with a gift for illustrating gorgeous portraits of women. And the world is noticing! She has over 220,000 followers on Instagram, something only 2% of the platform’s users have accomplished. Her account (@fdasuarez) has over 100 of her paintings. She recreates iconic Disney…

The slightest criticism about eye or skin color can shape how we view the world. For Latinos, these comments are ingrained in our experiences from an early age. They start with an abuela who says that only straight hair is “nice” (like in the film “Pelo Malo” above).…

Before Tom Kiefer was an artist, he was a janitor at a Customs and Border Protection processing center in Ajo, Arizona. There, fifty miles from the U.S.- Mexico border, he was in charge of throwing away bags full of items confiscated from undocumented migrants.  In 2007, he began…