A HOME BASE FOR THE LATINX COMMUNITY

The Latinx House is a gathering place for people who appreciate and support the Latinx community and who celebrate Latinx excellence in film and entertainment. We are also a space to discuss pressing societal issues and the content creation related to these stories. We provide engagement, activation and community building opportunities.

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OUR WORK

We unite our community by providing the space for artists, content creators, grassroots organizers, thought leaders, and other supporters to address issues that impact the Latinx community and creative narratives that will shift culture.

To ensure that the priorities, perspective, talent, and innovative ideas of the Latinx community are counted.
It is critical that we promote our own content creators and ensure that our voices are heard so that we have a seat at the cultural table.

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OUR CO-FOUNDERS

Raizado Festival was created by activist Mónica Ramírez in 2020. The Festival was launched in 2022 by The Latinx House, a project of Justice for Migrant Women, as a means to honor and acknowledge Latinx contributions to society. The Latinx House began at Sundance in 2020 and was created by Ramírez, along with producer and entrepreneur, Olga Segura, and producer and activist, Alexandra Martinez Kondracke to be a social and political driver that highlights the powerful contributions of Latinx/e people across industries and sectors.

MÓNICA RAMÍREZ

Mónica Ramírez is an attorney, author, and activist fighting for the rights of farmworkers, migrant women workers, and the Latinx community.

She is the founder of Justice for Migrant Women and co-founder of Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, The Latinx House, and Poderistas.

Mónica has received numerous awards, including Harvard Kennedy School’s first Gender Equity Changemaker Award, Feminist Majority’s Global Women’s Rights Award, the Smithsonian’s 2018 Ingenuity Award, a James Beard Award, and the Hispanic Heritage Award.

She was named to Forbes Mexico’s 100 Most Powerful Women’s 2018 list and TIME Magazine included her in its 2021 TIME100 Next list.

Mónica is also an inaugural member of the Ford Global Fellowship. She serves on the Board of Directors of the National Women’s Law Center, Friends of the Latino Museum and she is a member of The Little Market’s Activists Committee.

Mónica lives in Ohio with her husband and son.

OLGA SEGURA

Olga Segura is a Mexican producer. She has produced films premiering at worldwide prestigious festivals like Venice, Berlin and Sundance. Her last film, “Waiting for the Barbarians” was based on the novel written by Nobel

Prize winner J.M. Coetzee, it was directed by the Colombian Oscar-nominee Ciro Guerra, starring Oscar winner Mark Rylance, Robert Pattinson, Johnny Depp and Gana Bayarsaikhan and premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2019.

She is currently producing and co-directing a documentary based on the 3-time Latin Grammy winning singer and composer Carla Morrison.

Segura is also a co-founder of Poderistas, a movement and platform designed to empower the next generation of Latinas, as well as Decididas, a digital content series and platform that empowers women in Mexico and Latin America. Segura created and directed Elefanta: Que ninguna se quede balanceándose sola, an animated short film by The Latinx House.

For her efforts as a prominent voice within the Latinx community, Segura was named to Forbes Mexico’s list of the 100 Most Powerful Women of 2019, as well as earning recognition as a “2019 Changemaker” by Marie Claire.

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The Latinx House is a project of Justice for Migrant Women, which is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization (EIN: 83-3607138).