If you’ve ever lost one of your favorite earrings, but couldn’t bear to throw the match away, Denisse Montalvan has a solution for you. The 33-year old LA-based public relations professional founded a nonprofit called The Orphaned Earring that creates and sells one-of-a-kind bracelets using beads and stones from earrings that have been “orphaned”.
Not many women use a painful breakup as inspiration to start a new business. But that’s exactly what Helen Troncoso did. In 2009, the women’s health advocate was engaged to a man she’d been dating on and off for more than 10 years. Looking back, Troncoso says it was an unhealthy relationship, but she wasn’t […]
Long before CNN’s Mercedes Soler became a successful Spanish-language TV host and Univision correspondent, she was immersed in media. The news helped Soler learn how to speak publicly and perfect her English pronunciation. At 12, Soler decided she “needed to be a journalist.” “I think the profession chose me,” says Soler, who is now the […]
You’ve probably heard Elianne Ramos’ name before. She’s an active volunteer at Latinos in Social Media (LATISM), where she writes the organization’s blog, leads the weekly Twitter chats and helped coordinate this May’s first top Latina blogger retreat in Washington, D.C. She’s also prolific on Twitter, where she goes by the handle @ergeekgoddess (in the […]