Category : Business & Entrepreneurship

For too long, culture was treated as a backdrop to business, a flavor to sprinkle in, a surface-level nod to diversity. Corporations borrowed our colors, our music, our recipes, and our language, but rarely credited or compensated the communities they pulled from. What was seen as “inspiration” was often appropriation,

Here’s the truth: Latina entrepreneurs know how to stretch a dollar. We have bootstrapped companies out of kitchens, garages, and late-night hustle hours squeezed between caregiving and full-time jobs. But there’s a ceiling to how far you can go on sweat equity and paid ads alone. Growth requires leverage—and one

Walk into any conference on artificial intelligence, fintech, or healthtech, and you’ll see the same faces on stage: mostly white, mostly male. Yet beneath the polished keynotes, a quieter revolution is underway. Latinas are entering the rooms that once seemed sealed off—founder seats, VP roles, product leadership in SaaS and

I have walked through fashion showrooms where our culture was treated as raw material—beautiful, but anonymous. A textile pattern lifted from Oaxaca. A silhouette “inspired” by Bogotá. A color palette said to be drawn from the Caribbean sun. And yet, no acknowledgment of the people, no credit to the makers,

In Silicon Valley, money moves on instinct. A twenty-something graduate from Stanford sketches an app on a café napkin and walks away with millions in seed funding. Meanwhile, a Latina founder with signed contracts, paying customers, and a vision that could transform an industry is told to “come back when