Todxs cuentan in ECCO: community and belonging in mathematics

The Encuentro Colombiano de Combinatoria (ECCO) is an international summer school that welcomes students and researchers with a wide variety of mathematical and personal experiences. ECCO has taught us a lot about what it might mean to truly find community and belonging in a mathematical space. The goal of this article is to share a few of the lessons that we have learned from helping to build it.