Sedalia es conocida por muchos como la sede de la Feria Estatal de Missouri. Casi 400,000 personas acuden allí cada verano para asistir a las festividades. Pero Sedalia también es conocida por otra oferta única en la que la gente acude a una pequeña tienda no muy lejos del recinto ferial.

Los datos del censo de EE.UU. muestran que Missouri tiene uno de los porcentajes más bajos de personas que se identifican como hispanos o latinos en el Medio Oeste. Está en torno al 5%.

In a special installment of her ¿Dónde está mi gente? series, KBIA’s Kassidy Arena speaks with Elijah Brown–who is Afro-Latino. The two discuss how identity plays such an important, but different role in their lives, especially for Brown who just moved back to Columbia, Missouri from Colombia, South America.

In the final installment of the ¿Dónde está mi gente? series, KBIA’s Kassidy Arena tackles how the state’s lack of diversity can affect Missourians on an individual level and redefine Latino identity.

Missouri has dozens of options when it comes to higher education. But as KBIA’s Kassidy Arena reports, many of them are not quite reaching Hispanic and Latino students. In the fourth installment of the ¿Dónde está mi gente? series, you’ll hear what’s being done to draw in those students and what hasn’t been happening.

For the third installment of KBIA Kassidy Arena’s ¿Dónde está mi gente? series, she investigated what resources are available to new Latinos and immigrants in mid-Missouri’s smaller town and found: there’s a need for more.

Hispanic and Latino people own about two percent of Missouri’s small businesses. For the second installment of the ¿Dónde está mi gente? series, KBIA’s Kassidy Arena reports on some of the successes and challenges for mid-Missouri Latinos in the business world.

KBIA's Kassidy Arena starts her journey to find her gente, or her people, in mid-Missouri. Where they are, what they're doing and why Missouri has one of the lowest percentages of Hispanic and Latino people in the Midwest. The first of six segments will dive into Missouri demographics and what it means for the state’s future.