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Community Spotlight: Hispanic Heritage Month<\/h1>\n

Your stories have power. They bring ideas to life and can shape how others see the world, and here at Hearts, we use stories to build community.<\/p>\n

This is one of many posts in our Community Spotlight Series, where we feature Hearts who identify with a group and have important conversations about how we can support one another.<\/p>\n

Throughout the series, we will work closely with these individuals to create an experience where they can share their culture with fellow Hearts. We\u2019ll hear directly from them about their lives, the safe spaces they\u2019ve created to live their truth and how we can be better allies.<\/p>\n

And then we listen.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because more than ever, stories that celebrate our differences need to be heard.<\/p>\n

Sharing a diversity of Hispanic culture<\/h2>\n

The beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month (HHM) on September 15 marks a historic day for many Latin America countries. It\u2019s the anniversary of independence from Spain for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Mexico, Belize and Chile were soon to follow.<\/p>\n

Today, HHM gives Americans the opportunity to broadly celebrate the history, cultures and contributions of all Americans whose ancestors came from Latin America and Spain.<\/p>\n

From dancing and cooking to roundtable discussions and community spotlight pieces, the Hearts & Science Experience Team had no end of ideas to pull from.<\/p>\n

One hit activity, salsa and bachata dancing over Zoom with Salsa in Queens<\/a>, gave Hearts a way to try out two Latin styles of dance alongside some traditional rhythms.<\/p>\n

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Other activities gave participants like Anthony Diaz, director of platform operations, and Hazel Dalmau, media supervisor, a unique opportunity to discuss their backgrounds. In one discussion, they shared how they identify, the role language plays in their daily lives and explored pressing current events. Hazel reflects,<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was interesting to see consistent themes surface around how we are working to keep our culture alive in our daily routines, even when we\u2019re far away from our friends and family.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n