Latinas From The Block To The Boardroom

The journey to being an entrepreneur to a multi-million dollar company can be challenging when you don't have an uncle that's a banker. Jennifer Garcia, COO at LBAN ,  Latino Business Action Network, a Silicon Valley based non profit, discusses how we can move beyond just the side hustle, to entrepreneur, to multi-million dollar business with conversations when we can build stronger networks. Lati...

Marilyn Alverio, a corporate marketing strategist and community advocate who has spent decades dedicated to empowering women. Over the course of the past 19 years, the Latinas and Power Symposium , an annual event held in June, has created a network upwards of 10,000 women throughout the United States and in several countries around the world.  The Latinas & Power Symposium has now grown to be...

Latinas wanna talk money! Time to level up with Olga Camargo and the Shenix.app ! Latinas influence money, but we want to build our own money, save our money and learn how to invest our money! How can we see our dream of wealth when bills are on the table today?  However, it's important to realize, a little saved today, grows into financial accessibility later, especially building that financial f...

In this episode, Karen Maldonado CPIO from Latinos for Education.org and the producer of Latinas From The Block To The Boardroom, Theresa E. Gonzales, discuss the necessary conversations and leadership opportunities we have in education as a Latino community.  Today, across the United States classrooms, there is only 8% representation of Latino educators and only 4% of Latinos on education boards....

As Latinas who are multi-generational and indigenous, who continue to live in the Southwest in what was Mexico before 1849, our stories are steeped in survival and strength. Angela Salazar is a rising Arizona Phoenician leader who came from the block and found her ancestral light to break generational poverty. As she describes the “risk vs. reward” mentally, in her pursuit of leadership in a job f...

What happens when you bring three fierce Latinas who are inspired by the power of technology and their passion for building digital equity for their communities? Women Tech Makers of Modesto are championing the next generation of tech literacy, confidence and digital community to an area that is least seen as the next technology hub of technology skilled labor, the Central Valley of California.  W...

Have you ever “googled” yourself? Have you ever googled yourself as a person of color? There is a dominant narrative that has been encoded into the largest search platforms in the world and they have all made their money off the backs of our identities. Our stories and our histories are being written and often rewritten due to the lack of representation in the technology industry.  We are less tha...

Let's talk about the power of networks within our global communities. Maricella Herrera Avila , CEO of the Ellevate Network is creating new leadership in a global community of professional women+. Maricella is the first Latina to be the CEO of this global organization and she brings with her the financial tenacity and leadership to build strength in numbers for a new diverse community. We open wit...

This episode was recorded in the late summer of 2022, before the release of the recorded racist comments and frustrations on redistricting certain Latino communities in Los Angeles from  City Council President, Nury Martinez and her council colleagues, Kevin de Leon and Gil Cedillo. Our guest, Nicole López was running for a district-42  in the past June primaries, and the youngest Latina on the ba...

In this episode, Vanessa Vigil shares with us her journey of advertising media experience between the agency and publishing side,  to her new leadership role as the Chief Brand Officer of Mitu , now partnered with the NGL Collective under the leadership team of John Leguizamo and David Chitel. As a first generation Latina out of Southern California, Vanessa discusses with us how multicultural medi...

Today, we are going to hear from CiCi Rojas, 1st Latina in the ​171-year history of YMCA of the USA to serve as Chair, National Board of Directors​!! Congratulations! CiCi shares her DYI experience as a mother of 4 children, and college graduate, that by leveraging her Spanish, gave her the confidence to build alliances to work within Kanas City as a car salesman, to becoming the Hispanic Chamber...

In this episode, we discuss the power of healing the belief systems that we have grown up with as Latinas to help us pursue our dreams without guilt. Denise Soler Cox, a first generation talking to a third generation, Theresa E. Gonzales , who both grew up in the United States, discuss the guilt and shame that is often tied to our cultural norms if we don't speak fluent Spanish or we want bigger c...

Noelle Silver has been in the tech ecosystem for over 20 years and an AI executive at IBM. We discuss how technology companies are reaching new AI based product designs but still not being inclusive of communities that make up a third of the population that uses all technology products. How do you build for the future when the door is not open wide enough for community members to be on the product...

Gael and I connected at Podcast Movement Evolutions in Los Angeles, March 2022,  and talked about how podcasting has been making an impact into our communities.  I wanted to learn more about his podcast, Teenager Therapy and the collaboration began. Gael Aitor, host of Teenager Therapy started his podcast before Covid-19 at the age of 15, with his friends, because he saw the power of social media...

Latinas From The Block To The Boardroom podcast is very excited to share this Small Business Week 2022 collaboration podcast, with Proactive Network Consulting . As a Latina from New York City, Michelle Londoño , wife, mother of 3 children and principal of Proactive Network Consulting services of San Francisco, shares with us how her entrepreneurial journey started by her grandmother immigrating f...

Monica Ramirez, Activist Organizer, Founder of Justice For Migrant Women , and Co-Founder of Poderistas, The Latinx House and Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, talks to us through her journey that inspired her to ask questions at a very young age to her migrant farm working parents, “why are farm workers not celebrated when it's time to work in the fields, but fisherman in our town are welcomed back...

We are moving into more tech job opportunities for 2022 as the online experience of purchasing goods and services has exploded during Covid-19. Liliana Aide Monge, CEO and Co-Founder of Sabio.la says, "We can't go back to how we were engaging online before the pandemic." It's true, we are now using more technology to manage our lives, our education, delivery systems and how we want to stream conte...

Latinas From The Block To The Boardroom is not holding back in 2022! There was a lot of chatter late last year about the great resignation, and what that mean for people quitting their jobs in record numbers! Why were brown and black folks mostly impacted by economic fall out from Covid? What will be the impact for future generations and why are we not talking about wealth creation for our communi...

Women in Business is a stat that most large enterprise organizations are trying to understand in their Business Strategy and they should. However, when you don't hire enough women or women of color to mentor into the C-Suite or put on strategic product teams, they will never get it right. So, we move on and create our own boardroom tables, yes plural with an S,  as we invite everyone!   As a 20 ye...

Everyday is Native American Heritage Day and Andrea Delgado Olson, Executive Director of Natives In Tech, is unapologetically native within the digital platforms where Indigenous communities are the least scene or heard. Her mission is to help bring indigenous languages and story into the design and preservation within these new technology platforms for future generations to understand their histo...

Raquel Velez, Puerto Rico born and 1st generation CEO & Founder of AlpineParrot.com , is changing the outdoor fashion industry for women of color, one pair of Trekking pants at a time. She knew she wanted to create something amazing from the moment she saw a women show her classroom how she built a robot. Her journey from mechanical and software engineering gave her the confidence to break-fix...

Representation matters in all industries and building a global community is how Diana Iracheta is changing the mechanical engineering game! She started LatinaEngineer.com as an international Latina Engineering community through her social media , one pink post at a time! The stereotypes of engineering and STEM fields are being broken with Diana's tenacity and energy to change the 2% of Latinas in...

Latinas are one of the largest market segments with an influencing power that is inspiring. Tech and VC's need to wake up and smell the cafecito! We are a market force to be reckoned with as we build brand loyalty and trust. Ana Consuelo Matiella and her daughter, Sada Naegelin, of De Las Mias, decided to take the health issue of Diabetes within the Latino community into their own hands by researc...

How do you build a Latinx Tech bay area meet-up group into a global organization of 15,000 Latinx/a/o BIPOC/LGBTQ members in 3 years? Techqueria was born from the need to have safe conversations in tech, safe networking and leadership discussions that would hold technology companies accountable to their DEI policies and recruitment transparency. The tipping point of tech to hide behind the "pipeli...

When you grow up in the Bronx and decide that your food sources are coming to you through fast food or liquor stores, you get activated. Destiny DeJesus tells us how she found Veggie Mijas as a way to get involved with activistas de la tierra, by creating a local chapter as her way to help folks learn about food justice and creating healthy meals. Her own food transition to decolonizing her diet w...