Ashley Dones
“Showing appreciation by embracing and representing our ancestry and culture is a honor. To take pride in ones heritage is like continuing a legacy or empowerment.”
Azariel Sudan
“I joined to connect with you and the other beautiful models to get to know them and their cultural. I feel like it’s my duty as a creative to show through my art work who I am, where I come from and to empower my roots everyday so that we as a people don’t forget where we come from!”
Samantha Dupiche
“I was raised and born in Haiti. I am extremely grateful that I got to experience Haiti without any technology because I got the privilege of knowing about a lot of skills and life lessons. Since the age of 7 my grand parents and my parents started to teach me the benefits of our herbs And the richness of our precious land. Although I hated how as a girl they were always teaching me on how to be a future wife/mother but I am extremely grateful for every tradition that my parents passed down to me. The way Haitian girls are raised automatically taught us how to be mature specially if they were raised in the countryside.”
Yeny Ferreras
“I always been curious about my ethnical background, which is why I started this visual project of Empowering Your Roots. As a native Dominican woman all I know it is that we are made up of a mix of three races, Taino, African, Spanish.”
