When cousins Karen Velasco and Paola Bustamante reconnected after years apart, they didn’t expect their reunion to spark a growing community of young Latinas in Tucson.
Both said they spent much of their early adulthood feeling disconnected while navigating new cities, demanding jobs and the sense that something was missing.
“We kind of realized that we had lived all of these shared experiences, but isolated,” Velasco said. “We felt very isolated, very lonely, like we were the only ones going through this. That reconnection pulled us completely out of that dark place in our life.”…