18 Creatives to Diversify Your Scroll
On the heels of National Hispanic Heritage Month, our D1A community curated a list of 15 creatives that can help diversify your scroll. They are artists, designers, writers and content creators inspiring us and breaking through on social.
Chelsea H is a fashion, lifestyle and travel blogger based in Queens, New York. Her blog, Chelsea as of Late is a digital journal documenting her daily occurrences, travel tips, and natural hair journey.
Harold Camilo is a Puerto Rico-based photographer with a whimsical approach to nature photography. His mixture of textures and portraiture allure lovers, friends and strangers alike. With 3+ years of experience in photography, he has been able to secure an admirable spot in social media by thousands of followers from all scopes of life.
Martine Gutierrez is a Brooklyn-based performance artist who draws from eclectic media, acting as subject, artist, and muse, documenting her personal metamorphosis into various imagined roles. Interested in the fluidity of relationships and the role of genders within them, she employs mannequins as her counterparts to explore the diverse narratives of intimacy.
Samantha Ortiz is the co-founder and head trainer of Brooklyn’s Triple Threat Bootcamp. When she isn’t coaching clients, she’s sharing her personal journey of hard work and body positivity with her followers on social.
Walter Thompson-Hernández is a Los Angeles-based New York Times multimedia reporter who covers emerging sub-cultures across the world. His writing, photography, and videos have appeared and been featured by The New York Times, NPR, VICE, BBC, CNN, Fusion, Remezcla, The Guardian, The Root, Huffington Post, among others.
Elizabeth Acevedo is a New York Times bestselling author of The Poet X and With the Fire on High. Her critically-acclaimed debut novel, The Poet X, won the 2018 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature
Gabilú Mireles is a Mexico City-based blogger who is a self-professed food and Instagram enthusiast. She says that learning to love her curves was what led her to ultimately embracing her style and creating her blog, Fat Gab, for curvy-girl fashion inspiration.
Alexsey Reyes is a Dallas, Texas-based portrait/lifestyle photographer. As a recent high school grad, he founded @teenscreate, a Digital webzine devoted to empowering youth voices.
Madeline Torres is a New Jersey native working in New York City as a Compensation Manager to fund her travel excursions and other passions. Her blog, hereismaddy, documents her trips, relationship, fitness, and fashion. Her hope is that through sharing her story she inspires others to explore new places and try new things.
Mala Muñoz is an LA-born and Xicana raised writer and the founder and co-host of Locatora Radio, a “Radiophonic Novela archiving the brilliance of WOC”. Muñoz’s pieces have been featured in VIBE Viva, Everyday Feminism and the Huffington Post.
Ruben, better known as Queer Xicano Chisme, is a multimedia content creator present across all social media. His work includes: curating a social justice blog, writing and editing essays, hosting and producing podcasts, as well as creating video content and other visual media.
Gordita Applebum is a south-central native known for her advocacy for mental health in communities of color. The self-proclaimed “Mental Health Mami” holds workshops where she drops self-care gems. She continues to create spaces where communities of color feel safe enough to share their mental health struggles.
Terry Blas is an illustrator and writer based in Portland, Oregon. He is the writer behind the auto-bio comics Ghetto Swirl and You Say Latino (featured on NPR, OPB, Vox.com and Cosmo.com.) Terry’s work has appeared in comics Bravest Warriors, Regular Show, The Amazing World of Gumball, Adventure Time, and Rick and Morty.
Justin Favela is a mixed media artist who does large-scale installation sculptures in the piñata style or medium. His work references pop culture, art history, society, cultural commentary, and his own Guatemala-Mexican-American heritage that is rooted in growing up in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Johanna Toruño is the visual artist and creator of The Unapologetically Brown Series, a street series for and by people of color. The proud Salvadoran and New Yorker is not only passionate about curating art but also having it jumpstart important conversations for the community at large.
Jeannette Ogden is a health enthusiast and yoga sculpt instructor who uses her blog, “shutthekaleup”, to share her enthusiasm for wellness, family, fitness, well being, and self-care.
Lorely Rodriguez, is a LA-based singer, songwriter, musician and record producer known by her stage name “Empress Of”.
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