Words cannot describe how excited I am to share this collaboration I did with NBC News about Hispanic Heritage Month. More importantly, I got to share my beautiful and tough stories of how I have navigated being Afro-Latina in my family, career, and in the community.

“Ligia Cushman, who grew up in New York City’s predominantly Dominican neighborhood of Washington Heights where she remembers being told “you're not Black, you're Dominican,” used to identify herself as Hispanic until she moved to the Deep South.”

Check out my interview here.