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Mujeres Latinas Young Professionals Advisory Council

08/23/2025

✨MEET OUR 2025 PODEROSAS PANEL TABLING ORGANIZATION: INSTITUTO DEL PROGRESO LATINO✨

Empowering immigrants. Advancing education. Building futures. 📘

Instituto del Progreso Latino opens doors through innovative programs in education, workforce development, and citizenship — creating pathways to opportunity for immigrant and Latino communities. Their work is rooted in progress, dignity, and possibility for all. 🚀

Stop by their table this Saturday to learn about their life-changing programs and how they’re helping individuals and families thrive through education, training, and advocacy. 📍

08/23/2025

✨MEET OUR 2025 PODEROSAS PANEL TABLING ORGANIZATION: MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION✨

Leading with purpose. Centering survivors. Uplifting comunidad. ✊🏽

For over 50 years, Mujeres Latinas en Acción has empowered Latinas and their families through advocacy, leadership development, and survivor-centered support. Their work creates safer, stronger communities where every voice matters. 💪🏽

Stop by their table this Saturday to connect with their team, explore their programs, and learn how they’re building paths of healing, justice, and liberation for all. 📣

08/23/2025

✨MEET OUR 2025 PODEROSAS PANEL TABLING ORGANIZATION: PILSEN WELLNESS CENTER ✨

Rooted in healing. Driven by equity. Powered by community.🤝

Pilsen Wellness Center has been walking alongside individuals and families for decades — offering mental health support, youth empowerment, and culturally grounded care for all. Because wellness is for everyone, and healing is a powerful path.🌱

Stop by their table this Saturday at Power of Her to learn more about their free and low-cost services, connect with their team, and discover how they’re making wellness accessible to all. 🔥

08/20/2025

🌺MEET OUR 2025 PODEROSAS PANEL PANELIST: ELVIRA MANDUJANO🌺
 Proud Durango-born, Chicago-raised entrepreneur. Hospitality visionary. Passionate connector of people and culture. 🌆🌸

After 20+ years as an accountant, she took a leap into entrepreneurship — managing a family-owned restaurant and now co-owning event venues where hospitality meets creativity. 🍽️🎨

From art shows to weddings, her spaces are more than venues — they’re celebrations of culture, community, and heartfelt service. 🫶🏻

She’s spent nearly three decades welcoming others into her home, and now into her business. 🫶🏽💒

Catch her on the Poderosas Panel this Saturday, August 23, as she shares her story of reinvention, resilience, and building a life that feels more like joy than work.🎙️✨

08/19/2025

🌺MEET OUR 2025 PODEROSAS PANEL
PANELIST: JENNIFER AGUILAR🌺

Proud Little Village native. Nonprofit powerhouse. Champion of culture, commerce, and community.💪🏽🌆

As Executive Director of the Little Village Chamber of Commerce, Jennifer leads with heart and strategy — driving economic growth while uplifting the cultural legacy of her neighborhood.📈🤝🎉

With 10+ years across nonprofit management, marketing, and public policy, she brings both vision and action to every table she sits at. From Gift of Hope to Nuestro Queso, from DePaul to the heart of 26th Street — her impact is rooted in service and uplift.🌎📚

Catch Jennifer on the Poderosas Panel this Saturday, August 23, as she shares her leadership journey, community roots, and the passion that fuels her purpose.🎤✨

08/19/2025

🌺MEET OUR 2025 PODEROSAS PANEL
PANELIST: RACHEL DIAZ🌺

Puerto Rican entrepreneur. Bold creator. Latina empowerment champion. 💪🏽💃🏽

Rachel is the creative force behind Borinken Cakes, a bakery bringing the rich, traditional flavors of Puerto Rico to life. Starting with no savings and no experience, she turned hurdles into fuel — building a thriving business and a powerful voice for Latina dreams.🌟

She’s on a mission to grow Borinken Cakes into a national brand and inspire Latinas everywhere to dream bigger and break barriers.🚧🔥

Catch her this Saturday, August 23, on the Poderosas Panel, sharing her journey, passion, and unstoppable drive.🎤✨

08/19/2025

🌺MEET OUR 2025 PODEROSAS PANEL
PANELIST: MARGARITA QUIÑONES PEÑA🌺

Proud Mexicana. Technologist. Nonprofit founder. Storyteller through wellness, words, and data.🧐

From Data & AI at Microsoft to creating Latina Sweat, Margarita has built a movement rooted in access, cultura, and collective healing — making wellness spaces where immigrant and BIPOC communities feel seen and centered.🫶🏻

She’s also the author of Homecoming, a children’s book sharing her own migration story — and a love letter to resilience, identity, and home. 🔥

Catch her on the Poderosas Panel this Saturday, August 23, as she shares her journey, her vision, and the power behind it all.🎤✨

08/19/2025

🌺MEET OUR 2025 PODEROSAS PANEL
PANELIST: SUSIE CASTRO🌺

Proud Latina. First-gen business owner. Former teen mom. Community-builder through movement and mindset. 🧠🏋🏽‍♀️

With over a decade in the fitness industry, Susie turned passion into purpose — founding O’Hare Fuerza, a wellness space rooted in inclusivity, cultura, and strength beyond the physical.🔥

She’s built more than a gym — she’s built a home for Latinas and people of color to feel seen, powerful, and unstoppable. 💥

Catch her on the Poderosas Panel this Saturday, August 23, sharing her journey, her grit, and the fuerza behind it all.🎤✨

08/18/2025

🌺MEET OUR 2025 PODEROSAS PANEL MODERATOR: NUBIA WILLMAN🌺

Mexican and Panamanian. Lawyer. Community advocate. Champion for women of color. Nubia brings bold leadership and deep heart to every space she enters — and she’s guiding this year’s Poderosas panel with that same energy. 💥

From Indiana to Chicago, Nubia’s journey through law school and into roles in legal aid, government, and nonprofits has always centered one thing: uplifting our communities and advocating for the rights and resources we deserve. 💼❤️

As Chief Programs Officer at Latinos Progresando, she continues that mission daily — and since 2014, she’s also used her platform to inspire women of color to pursue their JDs and take up space in the legal world — because she knows we need more of us in the rooms where decisions are made.👩🏽‍⚖️🔥

Join us this Saturday August 23rd to hear the powerful conversation, thoughtful leadership, and the kind of insight that only Nubia can bring. ✨🎤

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