HHF is partnering with Experian to host the Financial Empowerment Summit and provide a platform for Latinx students and young professionals to gain culturally relevant financial literacy knowledge and jumpstart their financial wellness journey and build generational wealth. Join us to learn from experts on various topics such as budgeting, investing, building credit and unlock valuable insights and resources from our speakers!
Pamela is a outstanding financial advisor at Jackson Sams Wealth Strategies and has been able to help women improve their personal and financial wealth through solid financial life planning. She has become a strong voice for women in personal finance and continues to help her clients secure their financial futures. Pamela holds a Behavioral Financial Advisor designation, awarded to advisors who have undergone training to help clients make financial decisions and she continues to positively influence clients’ spending and saving behavior in the presence of challenging emotions.
Kimberly Hamilton is the author of Building Wealth on a Dime: Finding Your Financial Future and the proud Latina Founder of Beworth Finance where she helps women make smart money moves via online courses and coaching. As an Accredited Financial Counselor, Kimberly's advice has been featured everywhere from Forbes and Yahoo Finance. She has led workshops for notable organizations and she continues to help by leading a financial education at the fintech company, Rocket Money. Kimberly continues to inspire on her platform @beworthfinance on how to make smart money moves.
Jully-Alma Taveras also known online as Investing Latina, is a Plutus Award-winning bilingual (Spanish) personal finance expert. She tells money stories from the lens of a Dominican Republic-born immigrant living in New York that went from being a shopaholic to a smart spender and diligent investor on her Youtube. She is the eldest of 3 in her own family, so her audience sees her as the older sister that will force you to do better, while also being your cheerleader along the way. She has taught over 10,000 people how to invest through her program 'The Investing Workshop' and continues to inspire thousands of women on all her platforms under @investinglatina.
Veronica Fuentes has built a reputation as one of the nation's leading Latina Financial Planners. Her practice serves individuals, families, and business owners across the country. For Fuentes, financial planning is not only a career but a personal mission. For Fuentes, financial planning is not only a career but a personal mission and she learned how important financial planning was to a family with her mother’s unexpected passing. Veronica is a strong leader and has taken on several leadership roles. The most recent being a Managing Director, where she is growing an office in Rockville, Maryland and is developing and inspiring new financial advisors.
Angela Neira's calling is to educate immigrant small business owners and families to develop their finance, leadership, and entrepreneurship skills. She has empowered more than 3,000 small business owners in the DMV area and has helped to create more than 800 businesses. Originally from Bogota, Colombia, she obtained her Bachelor’s degree in business administration from the Universidad Externado de Colombia and earned her Master’s degree in Project Management from the American University. Her expertise in financial coaching and entrepreneurship has allowed her to become a leader in her community where she has received various awards. She is the co-founder of DAPA Multiservices Advisors that is a successful company that offers accounting, taxes and consulting services for individuals and entrepreneurs.
Diana Avellaneda brings more than 25 years of experience working in finance in areas such as cash management, accounting, and investments. After 17 years working for well recognized Non-Profit organization in the DMV area such LEDC and AYUDA, she decided to form her own company and in 2017, along with other three business professionals and relatives– she funded DAPA Multiservice Advisors, LLC. She is passionate about economic and financial development of the community and helping others to
improve their lives, her commitment to the community and the conviction that education is the key to be able to succeed in this country are always present. She is a native of Colombia and has been living in United States since 2005 where she earned her BBA in Business Administration with a specialization in Management and recently her MBA in Accounting.
The Window Lounge will be in Building 38 and to get there you can go through the Student Center (bldg. 56), take the elevator to floor 'A', turn right, exit building, walk towards the School of Business (bldg. 38), then you will take the elevator to floor '2' to the Window Lounge.
Another available option is taking the outside stairs located by Student Center (bldg. 56) heading toward the outside plaza to head to the School of Business (bldg. 38).