Gentefied's Julissa Calderon Is Here to School You on 'Gentefication'

Most people are no strangers to the term gentrification, but some might not know its Latino cousin, gentefication. Actor Julissa Calderon stopped by the Jezebel studios and dropped some knowledge on what that term—which her new Netflix series is named after—means: “‘Gentefied’ is [when] our gente, the Latino community… someone who was raised there, leaves, goes on to do bigger and better things, and then decides, ‘Oh, the rent is cheap where I grew up. Let me go buy a house there. Let me go do this and let me go clean it up, and let’s make some money off of this.’ That’s what gentefication is.”