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Today we have Rizzo,
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a Cheetos Deja Tua ambassador,
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a talented singer, actor and educator with us.
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Hey, what's good y'all?
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Thank you for joining us.
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I'm gonna dive right in.
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What does it mean to be a Cheetos?
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They have to we ambassador and how did it feel to be
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selected? I gotta say it's been such a beautiful experience and
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and wild ride of inspiring the youth representing my community,
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not only in my hometown in San Antonio,
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but where I'm at in New York and all the way here
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in Tulum Mexico. It's been life-changing seriously,
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especially like as an artist,
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being a part of also like the Billboards week and seeing representation
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there with the, the Way Out Program with other artists.
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It's been quite an experience.
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can you tell us a bit more about the work you do
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with the good, good collective?
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Yeah. So we're all about providing high quality tuition,
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free performing arts education.
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So from music, theater,
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dance and also visual arts to Children in need,
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specifically underrepresented youth, Latin Black indigenous and keeping culture alive in
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communities where they need it the most.
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So my impact is we're based out of New York in Bushwick
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my beautiful home and I,
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you know, wanted to do more even though back when we
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started with limited resources,
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but we have an amazing program in my hometown in San Antonio
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and also in Tulum Mexico,
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where we focus on the my indigenous Children there in need.
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And what kind of impact do you hope to leave on future
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generations? And in the community,
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I really want folks to be able to see themselves out there
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and chase their dreams and even if they maybe don't see themselves
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out there that they're fully capable,
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no matter where they come from what upbringing.
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The reason why I do this work is because when I
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was a kid, I didn't have opportunities like this,
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you know, and I really want kids,
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not only kids but youth old and young just to keep
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going and be a student for life.
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I'm a student for life and I really want folks to just
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keep out there, stay curious and stay inspired,
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love that. And in which ways do you actually incorporate your
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culture into your work?
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2473, 65? Because I am like as a Chicana
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it's like, it's important to me because when I grew
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we had to assimilate to whiteness,
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right? There was many years where I experienced shame.
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Like I wasn't able to,
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in these spaces and I needed to be somebody else.
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It wasn't until my later adult years.
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It's where again, like in New York,
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having the space where you see other folks like embracing their culture
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embracing who they are,
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it became a space where I'm like,
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oh, I can be this way too.
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And so we really do want to showcase that,
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hey, we're not a monolith and you know,
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we're all here to support one another and,
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and keep shining and rising.
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That's awesome. And what other way would you like to leave
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behind? I feel for me it's the creative side of me
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I want to do more storytelling.
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I wanna bring more folks on board and represent their cultures.
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It's, that's why I do this work and I'm so passionate
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you're doing, you're doing the thing I I'm trying.
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That's why I love that,
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that the way I program seriously because it's helped like give AAA
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platform to tell my story,
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you know, like we still have a lot of needs.
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I mean, funding is a big issue.
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We gotta, sustainability is so important to me.
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I could easily go and impact 3000 students,
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you know, but I wanna focus on 100 students and 200
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hours each. You know,
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like it's important to me because again,
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it was like, we were in these little programs as a
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kid and maybe one month,
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two months and then never to be seen again.
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But I do remember those,
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those mentors, those educators at that time.
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So I always take that to heart that what I'm doing,
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the kids see me out there hustling being an artist,
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singing, acting, but also taking the time to inspire them
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And it's literally has,
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has been so rewarding in that,
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in that world. You know,
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thank you so much Brazil for coming on and telling us more
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about the mark you're leaving behind and where can people follow you
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Yeah, you can follow me on all the socials at
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Brazil, Torres, Instagram,
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the good, good collective.
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We're on those platforms as well and check out our website.
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You feel so inclined,
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follow our journey. Thank you so much.
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If you're out to help your communities,
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go tell Cheetos about it,
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answer for your chance to win $25,000 and become the next Cheetos
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