Rediscovering Latinidad is made with love and dedication to the art of family history. Too often, the search for our roots is framed through a Eurocentric lens, making the process feel inefficient and exclusionary for those who identify as Latiné, LatinX, and everything in between. We’re here to change that, and help you learn about your roots, ¡tus raíces!
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Latinx Parenting and healing intergenerational trauma with Leslie Priscilla
Spooky creatures and legends with Latinos Against Spooky Sh*t
Puerto Rico and Boricua culture
I highly recommend subscribing to Rediscovering Latinidad. Our history is complex, rich, and diverse, and it deserves to be explored on our own terms.
— Teresa Vega, genealogist and public educator
Meet Your Hosts
Briar Rose is a mujer de familia, amigos, pasamientos, y aventuras. She works in the commercial contracts private sector, was previously on the board of directors of The Book Fairies, and volunteers for food distribution with her daughter. She is the co-founding cohost of Rediscovering Latinidad, taking her love of genealogy and her uphill challenge of Latin American research to the microphone. Briar Rose is the mother of a vivacious little girl and wife to Rediscovering Latinidad’s chief engineer, Matt. She lives in Brooklyn and grew up on Long Island and went to college in Delaware. She’s traveled all over, even taking a leap of faith to go solo over the Atlantic to meet a long lost cousin in London who she met on Ancestry.com.
Briar Rose can’t wait to hear your family history journey, and help you weave it into a tapestry that your future ancestors will embrace with pride.
Fausto’s educational and professional journeys stand as testaments to the transformative power of organizations committed to expanding access to education and supporting underserved communities.
He owes much of his personal and professional success to the unwavering dedication of the organizations and individuals who tirelessly advocate for and guide young people toward pathways of opportunity.
Edward A. Rueda is a digital journalist and editor who has researched his Colombian and Ashkenazi Jewish families for 30+ years. He graduated from Columbia University, has lived in New York for nearly 25 years, and has two magnificent children, Matteo and Cecilia.
Check out his genealogy blogs, Rueda y Fingerhut and Genetic Funhouse, and check out his portfolio of writings and art. ¡Juepa je, qué chévere!
Jellissa is an avid reader and cinephile and her love of a good story lead her to the best kind of all— ancient family bochinche.
She has been researching her family’s scandals for nearly a decade and has uncovered a wealth of international juicy gossip in the process. We’re talking misinterpreted death-bed confessions, rumored brujería, an abuela who faked her own death…eat your heart out GRRM.
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