May 13, 2025
A BOUNDLESS & LIMITLESS LATINX WRITER
Yohanna Baez shares growing up Dominican in L.A., how a short doc on climate justice in her native DR sparked her storytelling path, her move to NYC to pursue the indie route, and turning All Night Deli—a genre-blending audio series about bodegas, designer drugs, and...
Apr 29, 2025
A QUEER ECUADORIAN WRITER FROM QUEENS
Sebastián Rea shares his journey from Ecuador to Queens, his hustle as a teen party promoter, working with Tribeca and Jennifer Lopez’s Nuyorican Productions, and how the NBC TV Writers Program led him to his first staff job on Peacock’s upcoming limited series Devil in...
Apr 15, 2025
A BOSS BABE LATINX WRITER WHO BUILT HER OWN LADDER & HELPS OTHERS CLIMB UP IT
Tawnya Benavides Bhattacharya shares what it was like growing up in a tiny farming town in Eastern Washington, how uncovering family secrets led her to embrace her Mexican roots later in life, why she founded the screenwriting school Script...
Apr 1, 2025
A QUIETLY CHAOTIC GENRE-BENDING INDIGENOUS/CHICANO WRITER
Elijah Sariñana shares his upbringing in California’s Central Valley, his journey from progressive rocker to writing horror and sci-fi rooted in Mexican mythology, his reconnection with his Nahua heritage, and how a La Lista mixer landed him a gig on
Mar 18, 2025
A BIRACIAL BISEXUAL BIPOLAR LATINA WRITER
Chynna Ladage shares her upbringing in Burbank with her Mexican and Indonesian family, her experience traveling the country while working on Catfish: The TV Show (MTV), her journey overcoming imposter syndrome to finally call herself a writer, and how she worked her way up from...