LatinxAmerica's podcast
LatinxAmerica is focused on highlighting catalysts that are using, leveraging, creating or investing in technology that can positively impact the Latinx community. Experts cover topics ranging from education, health, diversity, and civic engagement to financial stability/wealth creation.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2021
Yesenia Avila Gallardo Talks About Impact Investment, Family Offices and Mezcal
A VC Familia member, Yesenia Avila Gallardo from Occam Advisors helps clients execute their impact investment strategies. As a Principal at Occam, she works primarily with Potencia Ventures, a family…
Amelia Gandara Talks About Opportunities in Insurtech and Corporate VCs
A VCFamilia member, Amelia Gandara is a Principal at Nationwide Ventures. She has a dual role, managing the fund’s operations and investing alongside the team. She focuses on Nationwide’s early-stage…
Bianca Caban Talks About Connecting High Growth Tech Startups with Opportunities in Overlooked Places
This is another episode in the VCFamilia series where we highlight Latinx in Venture Capital. In this episode, we highlight Bianca Caban who is a Principal at Heartland Ventures (HV), a Seed & Series…
Monique Villa Talks About Building and Investing Beyond Silicon Valley
Monique Villa leads Mucker Capital's Nashville office, investing in companies across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. She is also the co-founder of Build In SE, a community of startup founders and ecosy…
Alejandro Guerrero Talks About Creating Opportunities for Founders and Investors
Alejandro Guerrero is a co-founder and General Partner at Act One Ventures, a Los Angeles-based pre-seed/seed fund investing in business software. Since 2015 the team of Alejandro Guerrero and Michae…
Marcos Gonzalez Talks About Investing in Diverse Teams
VCFamilia member Marcos Gonzalez, founder and managing partner of Vamos Ventures, is being recognized in this special series co-hosted by VCFamilia. Marcos is committed to supporting founders in hig…
Adrian Mendoza on Launching the First Latinx VC Fund on the East Coast
VCFamilia member Adrian Mendoza is the Founder and General Partner of Mendoza Ventures. After having two VC-funded startups in Boston, he started Mendoza Ventures to address the funding gap in the pr…
Julieta Moradei Talks About Her Non-Traditional Journey into VC and Innovating in Construction Tech
Juleita Moradei is a partner and founding member of Hometeam Ventures. She drives dealflow and operations while focusing on bringing innovation to the world’s largest - but least innovative- industr…
Pilar Johnson Talks About Investing in the Future
As part of VCFamilia's Venture Capital Series, we highlight VCFamilia member Pilar Johnson and Debut Capital. She talks about her journey into VC and how she went from DNI trainer to co-founding a v…
Dr. Tamra Chavez Talks About How To Destigmatize Addiction
Dr. Chavez is the Director of Mental Health at Caminar, Inc. and an expert in Substance Use Disorders. This is one of two episodes focusing on diagnosis, treatment and how Latinx dealing with this c…
Dr. Tamra Chavez Talks About Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Success
Dr. Chavez is the Director of Mental Health at Caminar, Inc. and an expert in Substance Use Disorders. According to a report from the American Addiction Center, 11% of tech workers have admitted to …
Miguel Garcia Castillo: Building Meaningful Companies through Brand Development
In our founder series, we talk about Miguel’s extensive experience in brand development, marketing and customer experience for Fortune 500 companies and purpose-led ventures. He shares how he works …
Erika Zarco Talks About The Acceptance Stages of Grief
Erika Zarco is a licensed marriage and family therapist, certified clinical tele-mental health provider with a certification in grief therapy.
In this episode Erika talks about different therapy res…
Erika Zarco Talks About Narrative Therapy
Erika Zarco is a Director of Counseling for Women United and Active (Mujeres Unidas y Activas). She offers a more humanistic therapeutic approach for patients: Narrative Therapy, a clinical orientati…
Dr. Abby Medcalf Talks About Building Great Relationships
This episode is part of our mental health and leveling up series. Dr. Abby Medcalf talks about how to start creating connections to begin building lasting relationships to succeed personally and pro…
Erika Garcia Rangel Talks About Latinx in Tech and Mental Health Therapeutic Approaches
Erika is a bilingual and bicultural Mental Health Specialist (LCSW) with 10 years of outpatient experience working with diverse individuals and families in terms of race/ethnicity, age, socioeconomic…
Dr. Stephanie Palacios Talks About Stress Management Strategies
Dr. Palacios joins us again to talk about how she works with entrepreneurs who are exhibiting tremendous amounts of stress and anxiety. She discusses strategies in her Stress Management Program and …
AJ DeLeón: An Educator Launches an EdTech Company
AJ DeLeon is the founder of Innovare through which he is leading a scaling social enterprise which drives continuous improvement and social innovation within the education ecosystem. We talk about h…
Monica Black Talks About Launching an Investor Syndicate to Activate Miami-based Capital
Monica Black is the founder of Function, an investor syndicate connecting South Florida's private wealth community with early stage technology, investment opportunities across the world. We talk abou…
Lynda Ruiz Talks About Her Journey as a Software Engineer at KeepTruckin
Lynda Ruiz grew up in a small farming community in California’s Central Valley. As the daughter of educators, she learned from her dad about the importance of learning to code and pursued the STEM p…