Chingon Legacy Team

Today we're publishing a public, bilingual, county-level map of Hispanic Indiana — and the first annual report that explains what it shows, where the numbers come from, and how to use them. Both are free. Both are live now. Indiana is home to 631,014 Hispanic and Latino residents as of July 1, 2024 — about 9.1% of the state, growing 13.5% since 2020 against statewide growth of roughly 2.0%. That's almost seven times faster than Indiana as a whole. Before today, there was no single, bilingual,...

When we launched Chingon Legacy, we didn't expect mental health to walk through our doors as often as it did. But it did. Quietly. Repeatedly. In ways we couldn't ignore. We saw young Latino men show up to our events looking strong on the outside while telling us — sometimes only after the room cleared — that they hadn't slept in weeks, that they had thought about ending it, that no one in their family talked about feelings. We saw Latina teenage girls carrying the emotional load for their...

[English Below] En Chingón Legacy, hemos aprendido que muchas de las barreras más grandes que enfrenta nuestra comunidad no siempre son visibles. En el caso de las personas ciegas o con discapacidad visual, los desafíos no solo están en la movilidad o la orientación, sino en algo mucho más cotidiano: el acceso a la información. Leer una carta, identificar un producto, revisar documentos importantes o incluso confirmar detalles básicos del día a día puede convertirse en una tarea compleja...