We are scientists that entered the blockchain space in 2021, started to develop a privacy-preserving dApp called Abakhus (https://linktr.ee/abakhus) and realized that (i) building a community to bridge portuguese and spanish speaking people and (ii) onboarding scientists and minorities was a gap to be filled, then IberoAm initiative was born in March 2022. One of the founders is a native spanish-speaking of indigenous origin, the other is a native portuguese-speaking of mixed origin (as most Brazilians are).