Growing up in El Salvador I knew I was just another brown kid like all the other kids around me, but everything quickly changed when I arrived to the U.S. I wasn’t in classrooms with kids that looked like me, my teachers, peers and strangers at the grocery store didn’t look like me. I was afraid to lose my identity among the white masses. Thankfully, my parents made sure to remind me who I was whenever I seemed lost. They taught me to not let the color of my skin to be a factor of failure and to take up space where I was the minority. I always knew that being Latinx is way more than just an ethnicity. Being Latinx means I’m part of a community who will stop at nothing to succeed. My Latinx identity is a part of me and I wouldn’t haven’t any