“I never really understood what it meant to be Peruvian as a child,” says Connie Chavez.
Chavez is a self-taught videographer who works at Latina magazine in New York. Growing up in New York, she didn’t really have an opportunity to be around other Peruvian people. Her friends dismissed her background, assuming it was the same as any other Latino culture.
“Nobody understood what Peru was,” she says. “It made me really feel bad.”
