Being invisible in itself holds tremendous power; it’s an advantage widely overlooked in today’s narcissistic world. This video explores the priceless benefits of being invisible.

For 25 years, Maria Hinojosa has helped tell America’s untold stories. In April 2010, Hinojosa launched The Futuro Media Group. She is the first Latina to anchor a Frontline report. As the anchor and executive producer of her own long-running weekly NPR show, Latino USA. Previously, a Senior Correspondent for NOW on PBS, a Correspondent on CNN, Hinojosa has reported hundreds of important stories. She was born in Mexico City, raised in Chicago, and received her BA from Barnard College. 

In this opinion video, you might find stories of landing on the streets that are strikingly relatable. Amid an affordable housing crisis, where 70 percent of all extremely low-income families today pay more than half their income on rent, becoming homeless is easier than we’d like to think. That’s what Mark Horvath discovered firsthand in 1995, when he lost his job and wound up homeless for eight years. He started interviewing people on the street in 2008, and began sharing those stories on his YouTube channel, Invisible People. He wanted to try to help viewers who might ignore their homeless neighbors.

Kim Tran, who studies issues of race and social justice movements, said that the conversations around race in America often fall into binary terms. “There’s white folks, there’s Black folks, and we really have failed to talk about anyone who is not in one of those two groups,” Tran said. “What we’re seeing now is that Asian Americans are, for some reason, a ‘surprise’ in terms of the racial discourse of this country.”