Isabel Rivera | FIU Caplin News

For track and field star Twanisha "TeeTee" Terry, being an Olympic gold medalist and being featured on a Netflix special are just a few of her accomplishments. She also hosts an online book club for readers nationwide and builds Lego sets in her free time.

Los Mora Arriaga are just one of the many hidden gems found at Homestead-Miami Mariachi Conservatory, Florida's sole mariachi school. Since 2015, the program, an offshoot of the nonprofit Mexican American Council, has improved the lives of local farmworker children through the arts, bridged cultural gaps in the area's Mexican-American families, and revived the underrepresented genre in South Florida.