This week, Ain’t I Latina? is featuring fashion designer Brittny Wood. As the daughter of well-known designer Guy Wood, the Puerto Rican, Black, Belizean and Honduran mamá naturally fell into fashion. From working alongside her father to starting her own women’s wear brand, Valencia Atelier, alongside fellow Latina, Vanessa Posso, Wood shares her fashion industry insights and how she balances motherhood and career.
This week, Ain’t I Latina? featuring the CEO of Cheeky Chick Concepts, LLC and Executive Director of its subsidiary, bluGarden Events, Karina Garden Jimenez. La dominicana shares her career insights and path to embracing her Afro-Latino identity.
Ain’t I Latina?’s Everyday Chica series highlights millennial Latinas that are blazing a trail in their respective industries, leading by example for future generations of Latinas. This week, we’re featuring Puertorriqueña Marie Nubia-Feliciano. She shares her passion for Afro-Latino identity within education.
Ain’t I Latina? features Brooklyn-born model and actress-turned-entrepreneur Rosemarie Reyes. Reyes shares how she went from modeling alongside Jay Z, 50 Cent and Aventura, among others, to owning her own public relations firm, Handz Dirty Public Relations.
Ain’t I Latina? features NYC-based author and events professional Sulma Arzu-Brown (Bad Hair Doesn’t Exist!). This Garifuna woman embraces her roots wholeheartedly.
Ain’t I Latina? caught up with the 2013-2014 Miss North Carolina Latina winner Kristina A. Sanchez in the latest Everyday Chica feature. Sanchez spoke to us about her participation in pageants, the Jakiyah McKoy pageant controversy and the influence Celia Cruz has had on her life.
Harlem’s Fashion Row hosted a series of events during New York Fashion week, including its “Fashion and Finance” luncheon, sponsored by Prudential, on Friday. While the fashion conversation often sticks with the aesthetics of design, the money conversation is equally as important—if not more.