The LatinFest was born out of the need for representation and exposure of Latin American Art in our school and community in 2018. This student-led project was initiated by Diana Teixeira and Eloy Neira (Peru); Emilia Moscoso (Ecuador), Lucas Longaresi (Brazil); Vivian Naranjo (Chile), Leila Jay, Rafael Luna, and Rosa Boshier (USA); and Pablo Leñero (Mexico). We seek to promote traditional art forms, but also challenge them and expose new ones. We strive for the decolonization of the arts, the mind, and the body. We question what it means to be Latinx. We confront embedded cultural issues such as machismo, xenophobia, and aporophobia