My mom is my business partner, being migrant entrepreneurs means fully trusting our vision and gifts that we provide to our community. Through our work, we honor and celebrate women cooks like my mother, brown, Indigenous and chingonas who migrate with knowledge and recipes. Being a business owner and having access to resources in a country that denies us from our existence is an everyday reality in the kitchen for us. Our patrons who find joy, healing and nourishment in our traditional dishes give us our strength to thrive.

La Producción started as a vision for a production company run by undocumented filmmakers. Now, we are bringing on even more undocumented creatives to play key roles in our projects.

Success is much more than money. Success means you accomplished something you set out to do. You can’t necessarily put a dollar figure on success, and doing so is a disservice to your daily accomplishments.

Being an undocumented entrepreneur presents a lot of challenges and barriers to access. However, there are also many different workarounds and ways to be able to live and sustain yourself. I hope that my experience will help others take those steps.