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THE COVER STORY P. 01

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CREATOR OF DEVINE COLOR AND COLOR BAGGAGE

Color taught me 

that relationships, not people, change the world.

Color taught me that relationships, not people, change the world.

How does a Puerto Rican girl riding around in the back seat of her parents’ car end up in Oregon, selling paint out of the trunk of her car, navigating her way to the top of a patriarchal paint industry with her own rainbow of colors and transforming lives with a bucket of paint?


I came from Puerto Rico to Portland with only two Anas.

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THE EXERCISE P. 02

BURP

SOMEBODY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER

Maybe it was them. Or you. The moment came. The misery stayed.

The moment we feel it, we know it...

Somebody should know better, made us miserable, and we can’t confront them.

THE LANGUAGE OF PRIDE

 

I would have never done that.

I can’t imagine saying that.

Whatever, I don’t care.

THE LANGUAGE OF PRIDE

 

They know better than to say that.
I can’t believe they did that.
Clearly everyone else knows.

​​In The Trove I follow the knowing that brought me here—from belonging, becoming, and bearing what I know. Because when we know better, we do better together.

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