{"id":24089,"date":"2023-06-28T20:28:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T03:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.new-wbc.org\/?p=24089"},"modified":"2024-12-16T11:08:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T19:08:14","slug":"empowering-women-owned-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.new-wbc.org\/es\/2023\/06\/empowering-women-owned-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"EMPOWERING WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\ufeffFOR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>GLOBAL EXPANSION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last Friday, we were excited to co-host a special event called \u201cEmpowering Women-Owned Businesses for Global Expansion\u201d.\u00a0Partnering with the U.S. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration\u2019s Global Diversity Export Initiative (GDEI), LA Mayor\u2019s Office and other local organizations, this invitational event took place at the Tom Bradley Tower on the 27th Floor of LA City Hall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We received overwhelming engagement as the event not only offered resources and capital access referrals for LA&#8217;s underserved women entrepreneurs, but also provided a platform for extensive international networking with women leaders from government and prominent local organizations. Moderated by GDEI&#8217;s Director Terri Batch, guest speakers and panelists included Kendee Yamaguchi (U.S. Department of Commerce\u2019s Deputy Assistant Secretary), Camille Richardson (U.S. Department of Commerce\u2019s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Middle East &amp; Africa), Christine Peterson (Director of International Affairs, LA Mayor\u2019s Office), Dr. Pamela Williamson (Women\u2019s Business Enterprise Council-West), Lilia Navarette (Women In Trade-LA), Simona Racek (SBA\u2019s Small Business Development Center), Kim Stotzer (CEO of NEW Community Investments), Paula Bahamon (Mission Valley Bank), Janet Perez Shensky (Lendistry), Libby Williams (EVP, Vermont Slauson EDC), Lily Otieno (Director of Supplier Diversity SoCal Gas), and many other distinguished women leaders.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were excited to be part of an event that truly\u00a0empowered under-resourced women small business owners to boost their capacity for success.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ruth Garc\u00eda-Corrales<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NEW-WBC, Program Director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeffFOR GLOBAL EXPANSION Last Friday, we were excited to co-host  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":24090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.new-wbc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.new-wbc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.new-wbc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.new-wbc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.new-wbc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.new-wbc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.new-wbc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.new-wbc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.new-wbc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.new-wbc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}