This is an event for our chapter members to interact, reconnect, and meet colleagues working and living in Latin America and the Caribbean. The agenda for the mixer will be: a) Discuss and meet the speakers of the Symposium organized by the chapter titled "Navigating A Gender-Biased World: Lessons From The Experiences Of Women In Ecology Across Cultures And Generations"; b) establish collaborations and novel ways to address common goals, emerging challenges, and to develop projects to promote interactions among ecological societies such as the ATBC (with whom we recently had a successful collaborative webinar) and other ecological societies of Latin America and the Caribbean; c) discuss LAC chapter member’s success after participating in the annual meeting (i.e. publications ratio of poster/talks presented during ESA meetings); d) discuss scientific decolonization in ecology with a particular focus on Latin America and the Caribbean; e) announce the best student talk and poster awards in our chapter; f) announce the composition of the new board, and; g) discuss future collaborations, upcoming events, and webinars we have prepared for the chapter