Cadena Collective

Reclaiming Cultural Identity Through Self Expression

Reclaiming Cultural Identity Through Self Expression

I am passionate about working alongside them to elevate Cadena Collective and broaden its reach. This brand embodies the act of creating an intenti...

Social Media Strategist & Content Creator: Sasha Zavala

We were excited to work on a Dia de los Muertos campaign that showcased the in-between of two worlds, our Mexican-American identity and the experi...

Versatile Creative: Rosa Moran

We met Rosa through a photography session where she modeled products from various vendors who are part of the Collective. Then we started followin...

This is Personal.

When we arrived to the United States, we merged two worlds to create our own bicultural experience and became third culture kids - ni de aqui, ni ...

Cadena Collective : A Chain of Good Choices

How Cadena Collective has built its business model on stakeholder alignment A question is looming in modern business: How does one create a busines...

Messenger of Love: Rosangelica Castillo

Rosa is bold. She’s the type of woman you’d meet at a coffee shop and she might be intrigued by a book you’re reading and proceed to ask you about ...

Fighting Anti-Black Racism in the non-Black Latinx Community

How can we work to embrace intersectional solidarity between Latinx and Black/Afro Latino communities, and speak about fighting anti-Black sentimen...

Remaining Connected and Creating Community

As we shared glimpses of the individual obstacles we’ve been facing – seeing loved ones furloughed, feeling stuck professionally and mentally, or b...

Voces de Cadena Collective : Aracely Salas of Cel Sal

Voices of Cadena Collective is a blog series featuring Q&A’s and short stories about the artisans that we work with. This first post is about A...

¡Gracias, Mamá!

Gifts for us were made of moments, memories, feelings. While we didn’t have the means to provide a lavish gift, anything we did give her was given...

Welcome Risa Takenaka to Cadena Collective!

Cadena Collective is excited to announce our first Digital Media Fellow. Risa Takenaka is a graduate student at the University of Notre Dame pursu...

Pleasant Grove Proud

The chance to bring our own community together is meaningful because it shows that we have the ability to define our own destinies. We are stronge...

When Women Succeed, Everyone Succeeds

Cadena Collective is more than a shop to find a beautiful pair of hand crafted earrings or hand embroidered items. We are a movement to help women...