Growing Contigo LLC is a small-business consulting firm that specializes in services, training and workshops for entrepreneurs, particularly in the immigrant Spanish-speaking communities, with a team made up of immigrants or the children of immigrants.
When Marcos Wanless founded the Seattle Latino Chamber of Commerce in 2016, he wasn’t trying to reinvent the wheel. He just saw that something essential was missing. “At that time, Seattle and King County didn’t have an active Latino Chamber,” he recalls in an interview with Washington Latino News. “If we, as Latinos, wanted a voice at the economic table, we needed to organize and create an institution capable of representing our community’s interests and potential.”
In central Washington, the Yakima Valley stretches out as one of the most productive agricultural regions in the country. Apples,
“We like to empower people,” brewery co-owner Tommy Ransom said.
“It becomes a way to assert identity, presence, and visibility, despite efforts or tendencies to erase or silence a population.”
Cultural celebration “serves as an opportunity to bring together and uplift small businesses, artists, creatives, and drag artists of color,” says Roxana Pardo Garcia, co-founder and executive director of Alimentando al Pueblo.
“The owners of Nuestro Barrio have always been vocal about having full representation of Latin America and that’s been something that has been really meaningful to me,” Ále Johnson said.
