Event Description: 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 "The state of ecosystems across the Global South: Perspectives on ecology, conservation, and environmental justice"; 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 Club Eco Evo Latinoamérica (with whom we are planning to collaborate in the future) 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) announce the best student talk and poster awards in our chapter; e) announce the composition of the new board, and; f) discuss future collaborations, upcoming events, and webinars we have prepared for the chapter.Group Name: Latin America and the Caribbean Chapter