Our annual listing includes business owners, professionals, educators, journalist and community leaders.

2023 marked the 10th Anniversary our Hispanic Lifestyle’s formal listing of our Latinas of Influence listing.  We celebrated this milestone by introducing our Connecting Latinas of Influence Series which took us Los Angeles, Dallas and the Temecula Valley.  At each location we recognized Latinas of Influence in location.  

Below is our 2023 Listing:

Los Angeles Latinas of Influence

• Vanessa Delgado , Founder and Managing Partner, Azure Development
• Erica Tejeda, Vice President/Downtown Los Angeles District Manager, Wells Fargo Bank
• Tanya Torres, Director of Investments | Certified Financial Planner, Park Avenue Securities
• Karla V. Gonzalez, MBA, Assistant Director/Adjunct Professor and Entrepreneur. Inland Empire Small Business Development Center
• Evelia Carmona , Senior Manager, Transformational Leader, Southern California Edison
• Esmeralda Hernandez, Founder/Owner Beauty Creations Inc.
• Elizabeth Martinez, Vice President Business Development, Meruelo Enterprises, Inc.
• Chantal Camarillo, Diverse Segments Senior Business Strategy Consultant, Wells Fargo Mortgage

Dallas Latinas of Influence

• Lynette Montoya– CEO,  Latino Hotel Association
• Stephanie Perez – Community Mortgage Sales Consultant, Wells Fargo & Company
• Dr. Maria Yareli Delgado – Inaugural Senior Director of Hispanic Serving Institutions Services at The University of Texas at Arlington
• Sandra Maria Garcia, MiM – Manager of Public Affairs Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad  and State Chair of Hispanic Women’s Network of Texas
• Paloma Alvarado – Field Manager and Recruiter with New York Life Insurance Company
• Stephanie Lucero – Emmy Award-winning journalist and Investigative Producer for NBC Responds/Telemundo Responde, the NBC’s Consumer Investigative Unit
• Raquel Rivera-Angwenyi – CEO, stylist, and owner of Afro Latina Fashion Boutique
• Roxanne Martinez – President of Roxstar Marketing

Southern California

• Alma K. Martnez, City Manager, City of El Monte
• Dr. Arlene Cano Matute co-founder Assistant Director, Chicano Student Programs. University of California, Riverside
• Sonia Smith Kang, AfroLatina Founder & Designer of Mixed Up Clothing
• Ana Padilla, Vice President, Senior Business Growth Strategy Consultant, Home Lending Diverse Segments, Wells Fargo & Company
• Julia Vergara, Executive Director, The Puente Project
• Karen I Suarez, M.S, VP Collective Impact,  MAKING HOPE HAPPEN FOUNDATION
• Erika Tejeda EdD, Principal – Liberty High School

Are you a Latina of Influence? Please share your story with us. Send your bio to info@hispaniclifestyle.com

Hispanic Lifestyle’s Latinas of Influence