Holidays mark our days and years with poignant experiences and memories to ground us in the celebration of life. The smell of my mother’s sopa de caldo after midnight mass is the beginning of Christmas. The taste of yellow rice with beans is a sense of plenty to share throughout the holiday season. The feel of twelve frozen grapes between my fingers means we’re just about to usher in a healthy new year. Some of my most cherished childhood memories are from the holiday season spent with my family and loved ones.

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Heritage Months are far too often squandered by well-meaning organizations due to a disturbing tradition of surface level celebrations. Whether it’s the 4th grade classroom bulletin board featuring the same three faces at Black History Month each February or Asian American and Pacific Islander Month centering on just one of the myriad of rich cultural traditions and histories rooted in a vast and varied continent - surface level celebrations risk tokenism, stereotyping, and cultural tourism.

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In celebration of the Anniversary of Experiences On Demand’s launch, I’m writing to express my gratitude to our clients and share more about the unique moments that led me to start this company.

First, thank you to my early clients, which is every client I’ve worked with since 2019! You invested in an early entrepreneur - a proud Colombian - Guamanian woman who was in the initial stages of building out her portfolio of events. Your trust, support, and partnership is the foundation to why EOD has grown tremendously in our first two years, and it is an honor to continue supporting your work.

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