How to Talk to [Mamí & Papí] about Anything
Society & Culture:Relationships
As a high school student Terry dreamed of going away to college, but she knew her Cuban parents would never allow it. And Juleyka speaks with filmmaker and activist Denise Soler Cox about how to tackle the ongoing push and pull between Latino family expectations and our self-determination.
Terry Catasús Jennings is an award-wining children's book writer and the author of The Little House of Hope and its translation, La Casita de Esperanza. Learn more about her work here.
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Denise Soler Cox is an mission-based business entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker and filmmaker who uses her experience to transform lives through storytelling. Fueled by her own identity (and identity crisis) as a first-generation American Latina born to Puerto Rican parents in New York, she Co-Founded Project Eñye in 2014. Project Enye is a multimedia production company whose purpose is to transform how we think about culture, identity, and what it means to belong. Denise's first film, Being Enye (ñ) is an interactive, story-driven, multi-platform, documentary project featuring first-person narratives from 1st generation American-born Latinos, also known as Enyes (ñ)s. She is the author of "#OwnYourEnye: Lessons on Language Family, Food & Owning Your Latinidad" and co-authored her first educational curriculum "#OwnyourEnye for Education." In September 2020 Denise was recognized as a “Featured Host” by Apple Podcast North America for her podcast “The Self-ish Latina.”. She has been invited to speak on over 150 stages including two TEDx talks and has worked with some of the world’s most recognized brands like Microsoft, Facebook, LinkedIn, JP Morgan Chase, Salesforce, Procter & Gamble, Dow Jones, Eli Lilly, Starbucks, and VaynerMedia, etc. Her work has been published as a contributor in Huffington Post. She has been featured in Forbes as a “Trailblazing Latina” and also on CNN, CNN Money, Chicago Tribune, Fox News Latino, HOLA, ABC, CBS, and NBC.
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