my community is my community are people

who just love food people who love music

people who love culture people have a an

immense love for LA and an immense love

for Oaxaca and where that intersection

meets those are my people

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Oaxaca is definitely the essence of who

I am Oaxaca is the place that I'm not

just gave birth to me but my parents my

grandparents my great-grandparents but I

moved to LA when I was 10 years old and

I love me La is where we build our

business it's a place that gifted my dad

the reality of all the dreams he ever

had for his family and I owe so much to

the city

the best thing about experiencing both

cultures is that you can be at 200

percenter you really can be a hundred

percent Mexican in my case I am 100 but

I'm also 100 LA and I can be both and no

one can take that from me

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was very important to write Oaxaca

because it's the first time that I will

hawk in family writes a book on Oaxaca

and I thought it was so important to be

able to have a book out there written by

a oaxacan family and speak Our Truth

unapologetically and be there as an

example for other families that look

like us sometimes when you look at

people that don't look like you on TV

it's hard to picture yourself there

because that's a closer for them and I'm

here to tell people that know the dream

is also for you and I'm doing it and if

I can so can you

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I love working with my family I just I

could not think of doing this with

anyone else there's so much satisfaction

to knowing that this is not just mine

this is our families this is for my

sister's daughters for my my brother's

son for my children and for their

families for them to have the

opportunities that we only dreamed of as

kids

my parents inspire me the most 100 my

parents came from a very very small town

and they were able to create this future

for their children and my father opened

a little small restaurant from the

corner of Koreatown in LA and now his

children have a product in one of the

biggest retailers in the country I don't

even think I could have believed that

but I think somewhere in my mind I had

to believe it in order for that this had

to become a reality

I live my Heritage every day with just

being me as long as you remain true to

yourself and as long as you do what you

love every single day you are always

going to honor those people that came

before you for me those people happen to

be incredible women that were born and

raised in Oaxaca women who

single-handedly carried the Heritage

with their two hands by cooking the food

they loved I am the manifestation of

those women's dreams this is me

my name is Brisa Lopez and I am a waha

Kenya living in LA