@ the Movies (Alejandro A. Riera)
Hector chats with Alejandro A. Riera, a long-time film critic born in Santurce, Puerto Rico and based in Chicago, about Latino and Latin American movies and diversity in Hollywood
Becoming a Doctora (Mayra Gaona)
Hector chats with Mayra Gaona, a PhD candidate in psychology, about the stigma against therapy in the Latino community
Hablando (Alberto Ferreras)
Hector chats with writer and director Alberto Ferreras about the various facets of Latinoness, Alberto’s childhood as a Spaniard growing up in Venezuela, and photographing the pigeons on his window ledge.
Love at First Bite (Chef Javier Chavez)
Hector chats with Chef Javier Chavez, owner and operator of Kitchen Table in Las Vegas
MANO’S Music Maven
In this episode of Latinish, Hector chats with MANO’s music editor, Sandra Treviño.
Free Hawai’i (Kawena’ulaokalā Kapahua)
Hector chats with Kawenaʻulaokalā Kapahua, an organizer in the Hawaiian independence movement, and they compare Hawaii with Puerto Rico
Sucking Up to the Kardashians
In the first episode of Hits from the Brain, Hector takes aim at celebrity culture and our obsession with wealth
Biden’s Border
Hector chats with Todd Miller, a journalist who has covered border security for the past 20 years, and the author of several books including Border Patrol Nation (2014), Empire of Borders (2019), and the forthcoming Build Bridges, Not Walls