Research has focused on the importance of family to Latinx/a/o students. Yet, Latinx/a/o college student identity models have remained linear and individualistic. Centering Chicana/Latina Feminist epistemology and methodology, this study utilized pláticas to understand how a collectivist orientation influences the academic identity development of Latinx/a/o graduate students. The study focused on graduate students to trace their trajectories and experiences through college and graduate school. Findings support the importance of family, peers, and holistic mentoring communities and extends the literature to add two other communities Latinx/a/o students consider in their academic agency and identity: the role models who inspire them and the young scholars they hope to inspire. In an effort to heal the split in students' academic identities between their close-knit family connections and their impersonal academic lives, this research proposes that Latinx/a/o students seek to create a broad community to rely on for their academic identity and agency.