💸💪🏾Moneda Moves (30): The case for bringing your whole self to work today ⚡⚡
Felicidades, Moneda Moves readers! ✨Another work week is in the books as we get ready to charge full speed into summer mode. 🌞That means you have one more week to wrap up that financial spring cleaning we've talked so much about! Need some last-minute pointers? Revisit our coverage on how to "Marie Kondo your finances," a term fintech entrepreneur Ramona Ortega used when she gave us the 4-1-1 on taking charge of your money.
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Also this week, we have a special interview for you with Mariana Atencio, one of the most well-known Latinas on news television, having done coverage on Univision to NBC and now a published author of her autobiography, "Perfectly You." A few years ago, she was just out of college in her home country where she faced several hurdles for making her profession remotely possible. Here's an excerpt from her story:
With Venezuela in socioeconomic and political crisis, Atencio’s journalism career was at a standstill. The year was 2007, and President Hugo Chávez had just shut down RCTV, one of the biggest news stations in the country. She likened it to the scale of shutting down a network like NBC. Chávez planned to replace the opposition channel with a state network promoting the president’s socialist revolution.
“I realized I wasn’t going to be able to tell the stories that I wanted or at least how I envisioned in my country,” Atencio said. “I was going to have to leave and flee.”
So she left her home country to practice journalism in the US, where Atencio learned how to practice her profession while wearing her Latinidad and authenticity on her sleeve, so to speak. More on her story and our interview in The Mujerista at the end of this notita.
See you at the bottom!
Con poder✊🏽,
Lyanne
Keep tabs/cuentas on what's happening at the intersection of Latinx and money.
How Latinx struggle with financial security in older age💰: A little-known fact: Latinas have the gift of living longer lives. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Latinas can expect to live to 84 years of age, making them the longest life expectancy after Asian American women with a life expectancy of 85 years.
The not-so great news? Having that longer life span comes with great responsibility, as it can bring about health and money challenges. In particular, Latinx do struggle more than other groups with diseases like diabetes and Alzheimer's. That said, Latinos that are first and second generation tend to have more positive health records than their non-Hispanic white counterparts even with a lower socioeconomic status. The biggest difficulty is how Latinas in particular suffer with their personal finances in later age. Per LULAC, one-fourth of Latinas older than 65 years old live in poverty. Almost 70% of working Latinos do not own assets in a retirement account. Experts say that a major way to tackle this issue is through financial literacy. The story comes from Laura Castañeda for NBC Latino.
Bill and Melinda Gates to tackle education for Black, Latinx students🏫: Bill and Melinda Gates just announced a new lobbying initiative that aims to focus on moving folks from poverty to employment and education for Latinx, black and rural students. The full article is in Business Insider by Rosalie Chan.
Know the powerful/potentes Latinx and up-and-comers in the money world.
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Entrepreneurs taking on systemic challenges starting with what's on your plate🍽: From ag biotech to organic food companies, several of the founders on the list put together by Forbes are looking to change the way food systems operate in the US. Take Soñar! for instance, a Latina-owned organic food company which sets out to bring nutrient-dense foods from the field to the family table while shooting for more than $1 million in revenue (a significant goal for a Latinx-owned business).
Keep tabs/cuentas on what's happening at the intersection of Latinx and money.
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How embracing her identity helped MSNBC correspondent Mariana Atencio become one of the most well-known Latina faces on TV news📺: It's time, mi gente, for a shameless plug...about a fellow newsroom colega. This week, MSNBC correspondent and one of the most well-known Latinx faces on television news, Mariana Atencio dropped a new autobiography: "Perfectly You." This book is a career roadmap for any young professional who may be the minority in their industry looking to harness the power of their identity. Atencio has vowed to shed light on news coming out of her home country of Venezuela and done powerful coverage in the US across national networks in English and Spanish from Univision to NBC. The unique thing about her is she brings her identity to every story she covers, adding:
"I will always be a person who is Latina. I carry my identity on my sleeve. I can’t separate that. In the beginning, it was almost like because you want to fit in, you think you have to hide it or nuance it but after a while, it’s like, 'No. Why would I do that? What kind of lesson am I giving those young people who are looking to me that are seeing me on screen?’"
My full interview with Atencio is now published on The Mujerista (which this week had a debut of its own: A major design overhaul✨-- felicidades!)
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