The Latinista 2018: Year in Review

One of the fastest growing segments in the workplace is the Latino U.S. workforce, which has grown significantly from 10.7 million in 1990 to 26.8 million in 2016 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, there are only 11 CEOs that are Latino and only ONE of them is a LATINA. (Geisha Williams, President and CEO, PG&E) Learn more about HACR - The organization that tracks and advocates for representation on boards (cc: HACR CEO Cid Wilson).

The Latinista's mission is to develop programming for career and leadership growth that in turn helps us get more women of color into positions of influence and power. We gather in three cities for monthly workshops: New York City, Chicago and Miami (In 2019 we'll be gearing up in Los Angeles) Watch our About The Latinista video here.

We focus our workshops around 4 main pillars:

• Career Strategy & Planning
• LinkedIn Professional Branding
• Financial Literacy & Wellness
• Public Speaking & Communication

With over 30 workshops completed this year and almost 1,000 invested members and attendees impacted, we've developed some significant partnerships. Here are a few.

The Financial Gym

Founder Shannon McLay opened this space in order to help you understand how to manage debt, fix your credit, help you save and teach you investing techniques. We hosted over 7 events in this incredible space and welcomed many Latinista members as Financial gym clients.

Pictured above: Women Making Money Moves featuring Financially Savvy Latina Natalie Torres-Haddad, Olga Maria of Latinas Who Travel, Diana Santamaria of DLee's World, Nathalie Farfan of la Brujas Club, financial counselor Jen Hemphill and Yesi Morillo of Proud to Be Latina. We also hosted this event in Los Angeles! If you're interested in joining the Los Angeles community we're building this year, please reach out to Jessica Vasquez.

The Flatiron School

An accelerated programming school that inspired a coding bootcamp industry. They opened their doors to us in April as we hosted this incredible panel of Latinas in STEM featuring Scientist Itzia Arroyo, Technologist & Engineer Dora Maria Abreu and Mathematician Ivonne Diaz Claisse. Join us via webinar as we host "3 Reasons Why Everyone Should Know how to Code" on January 25th, 2019 - click here to register.

NBC Universal

Unidos, Latino Employee Resource Group. Career Women on the RISE.

When you work for a corporation that cares about diversity & inclusion and the wellbeing of their workforce, it shows. We developed a strong relationship with NBC Universal and their Latino Employee resource group Unidos (thanks to Salvador Mendoza who leads these efforts) and built upon our Career Women on the RISE program. The program focused on the goal-setting, strategy building and execution of your career mobility.

Dream team pictured: Videographer Richard Hackman, yours truly The Latinista Founder Yai Vargas, NBC Diversity Champion Nefertali Deeb & Public Speaking Coach Minue Yoshida.

There is so much power in surrounding yourself with others that believe in you and your collective dreams - Find yourself a team of people willing to work as hard as you to for the good of the overall community. Understand what your strengths are and hire others to help you with the other priorities.

Prospanica New York

Under the management of Judy Ramos and Janine Jansen, Prospanica NY and The Latinista teamed up for numerous LinkedIn webinars and workshops. As the LinkedIn Ninja, I pride myself in helping professionals articulate their strengths and unique value propositions on the LinkedIn platform. For branding, for thought leadership and even to position themselves for their next big career move. One of my greatest thrills is helping you find your next role. It's my superpower.

EvolveHER Chicago

A Chicago-based community and co-working space specifically designed to inspire creativity and foster collaboration among women. On July 31st, we gathered our Chicago community at EvolveHER for an interactive workshop featuring business owners Jacqueline Camacho-Ruiz and Diana Canto-Sims. Event pictures here.

Meet some of The Latinista Chicago team: Denisse Robledo, Diana Canto-Sims, Argelia Martinez, Rebecca Mezzich, Andrea Cicola and Lia Godinez.

If you're in the Chicago area, please reach out to Argelia and join our community!

The Confident Public Speaker

One of our core pillars is helping you articulate your ideas, refining your elevator pitch and helping you become more brave when communicating in front of 5 or 500 people. Minue Yoshida is our public speaking coach and she has made her entire career revolve around helping you shine, authentically and in the most effective way. This past year we held a record number of Confident Public Speaking workshops for organizations like HBO, S&P Global and Premiere Response.

Thank you to Martha Velasquez, Janine Jansen and Jason Aydelott for making this all happen within your organizations and trusting in our commitment to develop your leaders into more confident public speakers!

Watch our Confident Public Speaker recap video below!

Leading with your Feminine Edge - Leadership Workshop

This is a four-part experiential workshop series exploring a new model for feminine leadership based on latest findings in neuroscience and ancient spiritual wisdom. During the workshop series, we learned how to connect and cultivate the feminine powers of fluidity, emotions, magnetism, intuition, nurturance, interdependence, nature, and embodiment. These are qualities that are biologically, psychologically, and spiritually more prevalent in women and can be proactively accessed to create a new personal leadership paradigm for women. Thank you to our sponsors BumbleBizz, Delta Airlines and Seahorse Ranch (where we will be hosting our final workshop in Feb. 2019) JOIN US!

Pictured here: Suki Sohn, Joana Vargas, Yai Vargas and Maria Brunet at BumbleBizz Headquarters in SoHo New York.

Money is Power: featuring Ellevest Co-founder Sallie Krawcheck

The Latinista and Ellevest worked together to bring women in NYC financial knowledge and tools. Ellevest was created to help women close their gender money gaps and unleash their financial power.

As part of this 60-minute workshop, Sallie Krawcheck and Rachel Sanborn of Ellevest covered some of the most important things you should be doing with your finances in each life stage. We also went over the 80/20 rule for managing your money. We walked walk away with key insights on how to prioritize your financial goals, and how to balance today’s needs with your goals for Future You.

Watch our Money is Power recap video below!

Latinas Equal Pay Day Commemoration Project

November 1st, 2018 marked Latinas Equal Pay Day, a national day to create awareness about the pay gap impacting Latinas. This day reflects how many extra days in the 2018 calendar year a Latina had to work to make up for her missing earnings in 2017. In response to a commitment to close the wage gap, LeanIn.Org, launched the #47PercentCounts campaign and partners with Adidas, Lyft, P&G and Reebok to create awareness. The Latinista partnered with Lean In Women of Color and other orgs to further our mission of closing the pay inequity. Read more on Julene Allen's post as she leads the Women of Color chapter out of Chicago.

I spoke on the importance of recognizing this day in an interview on Forbes and Yahoo Finance.

Latina Surge and Montclair State University came together in New Jersey for an event hosted with President Susan B. Cole at the MSU Feliciano School of Business in Montclair. From left to right: Krista Nerestant - Self-ish Lifestyle; Valeria (Val) Aloe - Director of Entrepreneurship Training, Statewide Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of NJ; Elisa Charters - President, Latina Surge/Lean In Latina Surge; Christine Badalamenti - Lead Regional Stylist - Worth NY and Yai Vargas - Founder, CEO The Latinista.

As you can see, we've been busy over at The Latinista! We've got an impressive lineup of professional development workshops in 2019 and look forward to seeing you soar in your career and leadership goals!

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Pictured below: Career Women on the RISE at Google HQ. Click here.