As bilingual Latine/x educators, immigrants, queer, and DACA-mented people who grew up in the Chicagoland area, and have worked in various museums and cultural institutions, we have first hand experience in the ways in which the stories of our communities are often left out.

Raíces Chicago was founded in response to our absence and in service to the mutual telling of these stories found within Chicago’s Latine/x communities, organizations, and intertwined with all of Chicago’s communities.