This year’s Latinx Heritage 

Month emphasized unity and 
diversity 
within 
the 
Latinx 

community 
through 
music, 

which was celebrated virtually 
at the University from mid-
September until Tuesday. 

Javier 
Solorzano 
Parada, 

program 
manager 
of 
Multi-

Ethnic Student Affairs, was one 
of the heads of Latinx Heritage 
Month. Solorzano said the ability 
to invite multiple speakers from 
outside of Michigan to the remote 
event made LHM particularly 
engaging.

“It 
was 
powerful 
hearing 

people say ‘hello’ from a different 
state, something that we weren’t 
able to see during programming 
before,” Solorzano said. “I’ve 
seen momentum and engagement 
continue throughout the whole 
month because we were able 
to have different speakers at 
different points in the month, 
whereas in other years, we 
focused on our large events, the 
opening and closing ceremonies.” 

Solorzano said events that 

took place highlighted a range 
of topics, including imposter 
syndrome, generational trauma, 
anti-Blackness and more. Faculty, 
staff and students participated in 
planning LHM.

Public Policy graduate student 

Baltazar Hernández, member 
of the programming committee, 
said 
the 
committee 
focused 

including diverse voices within 

the Latinx community. 

“One challenge was figuring 

out 
what 
Latinx 
Heritage 

Month looks like in a virtual 
environment 
and 
we 
were 

grappling with how to celebrate 
the diverse cultures within the 
Latinx umbrella so we wanted 
to incorporate as many different 
voices as we could,” Hernández 
said. 

The Afro Latinx community 

was highlighted during this 
year’s LHM through the logo 
and music. Sizzle Fantastic, a 
DJ and curator of Cumbiatón, 
a nationwide party that pays 
homage to the Afro Latinx 
culture, played at the opening 
ceremony.

“We 
really 
wanted 
to 

emphasize Afro Latinx identity 
and specifically through music,” 
Hernández said. “We’re trying to 
build a mosaic of different stories 
that these instruments (in the 
logo) tell and how diverse our 
narratives are as people from a 
larger region.”

Business junior Alex Jimenez 

was on the marketing committee 
for LHM and strategized the 
promotion of events. 

“We’ve had to be very flexible 

and 
instead 
of 
promoting 

different groups’ events before 
the programming for LHM even 
starts, we promote as much as 
we can during LHM for the days 
preceding each event,” Jimenez 
said. 

LSA junior Ximena Mancilla, 

who was the undergraduate 
coordinator 
for 
LHM, 
said 

cybersecurity issues prompted 

the LHM team to utilize the 
webinar feature on Zoom rather 
than 
the 
traditional 
format 

where participants can see each 
other. 

One in-person aspect of the 

programming 
was 
the 
safe 

distribution of “movie bags” 
to students on campus for the 
virtual Netflix parties put on 
every Saturday during LHM. 
Mancilla said the committee 
gave students popcorn, candy 
and jarritos, a popular fruit-
flavored soda, for people to 
snack on during watch parties of 
movies like Spiderman: Into the 
Spider-verse and the TV show 
Gente-fied. 

“Celebrating our culture does 

not stop after this month, we still 
have so much more to do and 
every day we should be proud of 
who we are because we deserve 
to be here at the University of 
Michigan no matter what anyone 
says,” Mancilla said. “I want 
everyone to keep being proud 
of where they come from: their 
family, roots and traditions.”

Events like LHM are especially 

important 
at 
predominantly 

white institutions because they 
can shed light on the difficulties 
of being a person of color in these 
spaces, according to Jimenez, 
who also noted the exclusion of 
opinions of people of color in the 
implementation of the Michigan 
Ambassadors program. 

Jimenez said voting in the 

upcoming presidential election 
can amplify Latinx voices.

“Latinx voter turnout could 

determine 
this 
election 
and 

I really hope things turn out 
for the best,” Jimenez said. 
“There have been a few speakers 
who have talked about the 
importance of voter turnout. 
Even at our opening ceremony, 
we had a Kahoot where one of 
the questions asked how many 
Latinx people would be eligible 
to vote this year … I think it’s just 
small stuff like that that puts it 
into peoples’ heads.” 

Solorzano said he hopes LHM 

will continue to be a way to learn 
about other peoples’ experiences 
and to share the Latinx identity 
with the campus community. 

“We are all navigating through 

very difficult times and with this 
pandemic, we are all viewing 
things through very different 
lenses,” Solorzano said. “For me 
it’s so great to hear committee 
members 
and 
community 

members excited about events 
happening on campus … that 
excitement and that celebration 
is something that I think creates 
many 
strong 
memories 
for 

students who are joining us, 
especially first-year students.”

Mancilla highlighted the need 

to focus on embracing the Latinx 
identity. 

“We belong here and have 

worked so hard to be here,” 
Mancilla said. “We continue to 
fight for this equality, but also we 
don’t want to sweat it too much 
because we know our worth 
and don’t want our parents’ and 
families’ sacrifice to go in vain.” 

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“Legally, 
I 
cannot 
really 

enforce 
that,” 
Porikos 
said. 

“Legally the only thing I can do 
is (say) ‘Listen, if you don’t listen 
to me, nobody comes in ... Last 
week and the weekend before 
I came to the point where I tell 
my managers — because I have 

more than one place — ‘Hey, if 
they don’t listen, we’re going to 
be here for the long run, just lock 
it up.’ Instead of 2 o’clock we’ll 
close like 12:15 to 12:20. So by 
doing that hopefully, we’ll get to 
the point where they’ll comply a 
little bit more.”

Porikos said it is difficult to 

determine where the cases came 
from or where the virus may have 
spread within his restaurant, 

particularly due to the number of 
students moving from bar to bar 
around town. 

“Especially 
on 
South 
U, 

there’s no way that I’m going to 
go to Rick’s and stay there for 
hours and not go to another bar,” 
Porikos said. “There’s no way I’m 
going to go to Blue Leprechaun 
and not going to go to Brown 
Jug. There are students walking 
around. It would be sad for me 

to say, ‘This is the place.’ I don’t 
blame the victim, but it seems 
to me that I’m doing pretty good 
with one third of the capacity, my 
employees are happy, I believe 
customers are happy, that’s why 
they keep coming. So I really 
cannot tell you.”

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