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Each day will be centered around
a different theme
01
Future of Leadership
We kick off with radical honesty - How do we deconstruct the assimilation our community had to/chose to follow in order to get into decision making rooms. How does the next gen of leaders reexamine power to reimagine the type of leadership needed now? How can the broader community learn from and show up better for the Afro-Latinx and Indigenous members of our community? New times require a new set of leadership values.
02
Latinidad in the Workplace
Latinx talent continues to redefine sectors. Join speakers in business, technical, and leadership roles as they discuss our impact and best practices—and share their advice for change. We will dive into the personal journey of executives navigating opportunities while defying statistical odds and preserving their cultura. This is where talent meets opportunity as we host the largest cross sector career fair and networking.
03
Acceptance vs Rights
What is the difference between Acceptance vs Rights, and the shifts we need to make as a community to engage in conversations that open up space for all parts of our communities instead of subsets of them? What does it mean to hold our power and acknowledge the barriers that still exist. This day will uplift and celebrate the Latinx led and Latinx serving organizations during the Comunidad Expo.
03
Owning our Voces
Our final day will close with hybrid celebration - virtual closing keynote and awards as well as pop up activations across 5+ cities. We will kick off our inaugural Voces De La Comunidad Awards to recognize our hidden figures as well as uplift our leaders across sectors.
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Job Title
Managing Partner
Organization
Base 10
Biography
Adeyemi (“Ade”) is co-founder & Managing Partner at Base10 Partners. Before Base10, Ade had a successful career as an entrepreneur and investor.
Ade was the co-founder and CEO of Tuenti (The “Spanish Facebook” which was acquired by Telefonica in 2010 for $100M), co-founder and CEO of Identified (“AI for HR” acquired by Workday in 2014) and a founding investor of Cabify (the largest ridesharing company in Latin America currently valued at over $1B). While at Workday, Ade led launch to Workday Ventures, the first fund focused on Applied AI for Enterprise Software and was VP of Technology Strategy.
Ade is originally from Spain and half Nigerian. He holds an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He also holds a J.D. in Law and a M.S in Economics from Icade University in Spain and studied a certificate on Machine Learning at Stanford.
Ade volunteers with CODE2040 who tries to create access, awareness and opportunities for gifted Black and Latin engineering talent.
Job Title
Founder and CEO at Tijiko
Organization
Tijiko
Biography
Angela Guzman is an award-winning UX design lead and entrepreneur based out of Silicon Valley best known for co-designing the original set of Apple emoji. Over the last decade, she has worked for Google, Airbnb, and Apple. She has managed, led, and directly contributed to design teams that focus on user experience, interaction, and visual design and has over two dozen design patents to her name. She studied Industrial and Graphic Design from 2002–2009 at the Rhode Island School of Design where she received a BFA and MFA. Angela has also been featured in a number of national and international publications as well as news outlets. Today, she is the founder and CEO of her new startup called Tijiko. When not designing, she loves to share her career journey with the hope of educating, inspiring, and empowering underrepresented groups in tech.
Job Title
Ecosystem Partnerships Manager, Creative Cloud
Organization
Adobe
Biography
Aimara Rodriguez is a Honduran-American business strategist and content creator based in New York City. She has a diverse background working at the intersection of startups, technology, and culture. Her expertise lies in operations management, partnership development, and brand strategy. She has been featured in Forbes and actively mentors for organizations such as Techstars, Built by Girls Ventures, and Digital Undivided.
Currently, Aimara builds Platform Partnerships at Adobe, where she focuses on cultivating and unifying the Creative Cloud Platform through the development of various partnerships as well as driving adoption of the plugins and app integrations that partners build. She also helps manage the Adobe Fund for Design, a $10 million fund aimed at supporting teams building products that will help shape the future of creativity and design.
View her work at www.aimararodriguez.com.
Job Title
Principal
Organization
Act One Ventures
Biography
1st generation Mexican-American investing in exceptional diverse B2B founders at the pre-seed and seed stage at Act One Ventures.
Job Title
Statewide Coordinator
Organization
Brown Issues
Biography
Alma is co-founder of the grassroots, heart-driven Brown Issues. As statewide coordinator, Alma is cultivating the next generation of Brown leaders through civic engagement, healing, and narrative change.
Job Title
Actor, Activist, Director
Organization
She Se Puede
Biography
America Ferrera is an award-winning actress and producer known for her breakthrough role as “Betty Suarez” on ABC’s hit comedy, Ugly Betty. For her performance, Ferrera was awarded a Golden Globe®, an Emmy®, and a Screen Actors Guild Award®, as well as ALMA and Imagen Awards.
Ferrera most recently produced, directed and starred in the NBC workplace comedy, Superstore, which will premiere it’s sixth season on October 29, 2020. She also executive produced and directed episodes of NETFLIX’s new Latinx Dramedy, Gentefied. Described as a badass Spanglish series about family, Gentefied follows three Mexican-American cousins and their struggle to chase the American Dream. The series embodies community, brown love and the feeling of displacement and was picked up for a second season on May 18th, 2020.
In 2018, Ferrera released her first book landing on the New York Times best-seller list. American Like Me is a vibrant and varied collection of first-person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures in America. Curated and edited by Ferrera, the anthology includes essays that share her own perspective of growing up as the daughter of Honduran immigrants in Los Angeles. Contributors to the book include Lin-Manuel Miranda, Roxane Gay, Issa Rae, Kumail Nanjiani, Congressman Joaquin Castro, Kal Penn, Uzo Aduba, Jenny Zhang, Michelle Kwan, Padma Lakshmi and many others.
A longtime activist, Ferrera recently launched She Se Puede alongside Eva Longoria Bastón and other Latina Leaders on August 31, 2020. She Se Puede is a digital lifestyle community and non-profit built to inspire, affirm, and inform Latinas so they can leverage their power to transform their lives, their families, their community and their nation. In addition to She Se Puede, she organized the ‘Letter of Solidarity’ with Eva as a response to the El Paso, Texas shooting in 2019. Over 200 Latinx community leaders signed, urging others to turn this time of despair into a time of action.
In 2017, she worked as one of the driving forces alongside other powerful women in Hollywood to establish the TIME’S UP movement. The movement addresses the systemic inequality and injustice in the workplace that has kept underrepresented groups from reaching their full potential. Ferrera also cofounded HARNESS, with her husband Ryan Piers Williams and Wilmer Valderrama, in 2016. HARNESS is a community of artists, influencers and grassroots leaders that provides education and engagement opportunities to amplify the organizations and individuals working on behalf of social justice.
Ferrera spoke at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on behalf of women’s rights and immigration in support of Hillary Clinton. She was also a chair for the Artists’ Committee for the Women’s March on Washington and spoke at the historic Women’s March the day after the 2017 Presidential Inauguration. Her activism has even extended on screen in several television documentaries including the EPIX TV mini-series, America Divided, Showtime’s groundbreaking documentary, The Years of Living Dangerously, and Nicholas Kristof’s series for PBS Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.
Some of Ferrera’s television and film credits include a memorable arc on the CBS hit The Good Wife; Ricky Gervais’ Special Correspondents; Ryan Piers Williams’ drama X/Y, which she co-produced and starred in; Diego Luna’s biopic, Cesar Chavez, (ALMA Award Special achievement in Film); David Ayer’s crime thriller End of Watch; Ryan Piers Williams’ The Dry Land, (Best International Film Edinburgh Film Festival); It’s a Disaster; Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (parts 1 and 2); Real Women Have Curves; Lords of Dogtown; How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer, among many others. She lends her vocal talents to the Oscar® nominated franchise films How to Train Your Dragon as Astrid.
On stage, she has appeared off-Broadway in Terrence McNally’s Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Laura Marks’ Bethany; and Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, directed by Trip Cullman. She graced the stage as Roxie Hart in the West End production of the hit musical, Chicago.
In 2006, Ferrera founded her own television and film production company, Take Fountain.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Ferrera is the youngest of six children. As a graduate of the University of Southern California, Ferrera studied International Relations while pursuing her film and television career.
Job Title
Staff Developer Advocate
Organization
Lightstep
Biography
Ana Margarita is a Staff Developer Advocate at Lightstep and focuses on helping companies be more reliable by leveraging Observability and Incident Response practices. Before Lightstep, she was a Senior Chaos Engineer at Gremlin and helped companies avoid outages by running proactive chaos engineering experiments. She has also worked at various-sized companies including Google, Uber, SFEFCU, and Miami-based startups. Ana is an internationally recognized speaker and has presented at: AWS re:Invent, KubeCon, DockerCon, DevOpDays, AllDayDevOps, Write/Speak/Code, and many others. Catch her tweeting at @Ana_M_Medina about traveling, diversity in tech, and mental health.
Job Title
Senior Product Manager, Technical
Organization
Amazon
Biography
Anthony Hernandez: Anthony is a proud Dominican-American, New York native, and a graduate of Baruch College with a degree in Marketing Psychology. He interned at Accenture for 3 years and shifted over to advertising, ending up at DigitasHealth, where he worked on the Pfizer’s Chantix digital business. He then worked at a eco-startup called TerraCycle in business development where he opened up the Brazil TerraCycle office.
After Brazil, Anthony joined Google working on advertising products as a Product Brand Manager for 6 years, launching ad products for Google. He was on rotation in Tokyo in 2015 working on evangelizing ad products for all of Asia. Anthony was the HOLA (Hispanic Googler Network) chapter lead in the NYC office. His work focused on empowering Latino tech entrepreneurs, celebrating Latino culture in the NYC office, and bringing Google’s passion and knowledge to people in the Latino community!
In 2017-2018 he was Vice president of Marketing, Strategic Partnerships at Genius Plaza an education tech company personalizing learning for immigrant populations across North and South America. He worked on a platform that has content that looks and sounds like the populations it serves while giving the students the chance to use their own cultures to teach themselves math and language mastery.
from 2018-2020 he was a contract senior product manager at Royal Caribean working on facial recognition and its deployment globally. He lead over 11 launches and with 32 planned in 2020. Covid-19 changed those plans!
More recently he finds himself working at Amazon for Prime Video as a senior product manager, technical.
Anthony frequently guest lectures on marketing, product, and growing businesses. He mentors and enjoys working with entrepreneurs. He will also claim loudly that he is undefeated in dominoes. This is not true.
Job Title
CEO & Co-founder
Organization
SUMA Wealth
Biography
Beatriz Acevedo is one of the leading inspirational voices and Latina entrepreneurs in the United States. She has dedicated her career to empowering and opening doors for the next generation of Latino leaders.
Beatriz started her career in media at a young age, first on radio and later on television. Her work earned her three Emmys, one MTV Music Award, and a Media Correspondent Award, among others. She later became a tech media entrepreneur as the Co-Founder and President of mitú, the leading digital media brand for young Latinos in the U.S.
Beatriz is a passionate and sought after speaker who enjoys discussions around diversity as good business, female leadership, and the economic impact of Latinos in America. Additionally, she sits on numerous boards and advisory committees.
Beatriz recently co-founded and co-chairs LA Collab, a Hollywood initiative aimed at doubling Latino representation in Hollywood, both in front and behind the camera by 2030.
Her latest startup SUMA Wealth was founded with the vision of closing the Latinx wealth gap by providing financial education via in-culture content, fintech tools, and digital experiences, all in a highly engaging wealth-building digital platform.
Job Title
Director
Organization
LTX Fest
Biography
Carla is the LTX Fest Director, where she manages conference strategy, content, partners and sponsorship. Before joining LTX Fest, Carla was the Sr. Global Events and Sponsorship Manager for Samsung NEXT where she led activations and sponsorship for international markets. Before Samsung, she was the global special events manager for Techstars, planning all their global summits and special event activations such as Startup Stage at CES. Carla received her bachelor’s degree in Journalism from Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid, Spain. Prior to her career in events, Carla worked as a journalist at various leading media corporations in Spain such as Unidad Editorial and EFE.
Job Title
Partner
Organization
MiLA Capital
Biography
Carmen Palafox is a founding partner at 2045 Ventures a pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm based in LA and a Partner at MiLA Capital, a seed-stage venture capital firm specializing in “tech you can touch”.
Before VC, she was Vice President at Dimensional Fund Advisors where she scaled investment operations into LATAM, Canada, and Europe going from $75 Billion AUM to $300 Billion AUM.
Carmen is on the Founding Board @ LatinxVC, the LA Steering Team @ All Raise and a Board Member @ NVCA. Carmen holds a BA from the University of Southern California, an MA in Sports Management from the University of San Francisco, and an MBA from Berkeley-Haas.
Job Title
Scout
Organization
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Biography
Carolina Huaranca Mendoza is currently a scout for Lightspeed Venture Partners and serves on the Board of Directors for Latinas in Tech, a network of 10,000 Latinas worldwide. She was a former Principal & Director of LP Investments at Kapor Capital, an early stage seed fund. Carolina originally joined Kapor Capital as a Principal in 2016 and while there she was a generalist investor, but had a particular interest in the future of work, future cities, logistics, and education. During her last year investing at Kapor Capital she helped devise an investment strategy to deploy capital in emerging fund managers. This strategy resulted in investments in Equal Ventures and Operator Collective. Prior to becoming a Principal, she was an Entrepreneur in Residence (EiR) at Kapor working on a edtech platform for teacher professional development.
She began her technology career as a Sales & Product Marketing Manager at SchoolNet; which was sold to Pearson for $230M. In 2012, she founded Spriggle, a marketplace that helped parents identify STEM inspired products for children ages 3-9.
Carolina also has a personal interest in angel investing in Latin American based tech startups given that her family hails from the region. In order to ensure even more diverse founders have access to different capital sources she is also a Venture Partner at Republic, an investment crowdfunding platform that allows users to easily invest in startups.
To date, she has shared her investment experience on over 50 stages, including SXSWEdu, Aspen Institute Latinos & Society Program, SOCAP, LTX Fest, and NPR: How I Built this Summit. Carolina has also been recognized by Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP) as a Latino Leader and Cosmo Latina Fearless Award Winner alongside Jessica Alba. She has also been featured in TechCrunch, CNN Money, SF Chronicle, and USA Today.
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