Sasha Kramer

Sasha Kramer is a writer based in Chicago. She is currently pursuing a Masters in Anthropology.

Her Agenda

This post first appeared on Her Agenda, an award-winning inspiration and information hub for ambitious millennial women, providing the best resources found online to motivate them to reach their full potential. Named a top website for millennial women by Forbes.com, Her Agenda’s content driven resource portal attracts driven women and gives them the tools to become accomplished women. Her Agenda curates, collects, and creates the latest news, events, career advice, jobs, workshops, panels, and conferences to help women with their careers. Her Agenda also features interviews with powerful, successful women to offer direct advice from their career journey to readers. For more, visit www.HerAgenda.com.

Ingrid Cruz

Ingrid Cruz is a freelance writer and artist. She enjoys trying new recipes, hiking, and coffee.

The Everymom

The Everymom is the ultimate online resource for modern mothers offering detailed and in-depth articles from experts and real moms on pregnancy, parenting, kids' gear, mom fashion, beauty, interiors, meal prep, and more. 

Michelle Holder

Michelle Holder lives in New Haven with her husband, serving primarily as a caregiver and educator for her two young daughters. A writer and performer, she hails from Chicago, where she spent 6 years directing communications and events for a small but mighty social justice non-profit. Michelle is an alum of the Theatre School at DePaul University and has also worked as an arts educator, child-care provider, and event photographer. She has a strong commitment to her faith, especially as it relates to advancing the common good.

Lorena Puldio

Lorena Puldio is a Mexican American freelance writer who specializes in content related to financial wellness, goal setting, yoga, friendships and lifestyle. Lorena spent the last decade working for various non profits as a certified Financial Coach, she currently holds a position designing financial literacy curriculums. In addition, she is a 500 + hour certified yoga instructor, she's been practicing yoga on and off the mat since 2008. She studied theater at Columbia College Chicago as well as an intensive acting course at Act One Studios. Lorena is passionate about sharing her knowledge with others, she's a genuine empath and hopes to help others by sharing what she's learned.

Kristal Sotomayor

Kristal Sotomayor is a bilingual Latinx freelance journalist, documentary filmmaker, and festival programmer based in Philadelphia. They serve as Programming Director for the Philadelphia Latino Film Festival and Co-Founder/Journalist of ¡Presente! Media Collective. In the past, Kristal has written for ITVS, WHYY, AL DÍA, CineSPEAK, and Autostraddle.

Dulce Arroyo

Dulce is an educator, writer, daughter of Mexican immigrants, lightworker, and bruja from Chicago. She believes that you can find magic within yourself at all times, and her life mission is to stay centered in love. Follow her adventures on Instagram at @writtenbydulce.

Juliana Barona

Juliana Barona is a current law student in Orlando, FL. Her passions range from social justice issues affecting people of color to poetry and other creative arts. Her poetry was recently published in the literary journal What Oft Was Thought and is working to publish her own collection of poems in the near future.

Jessica Hoppe

Jessica Hoppe is a New York-based writer and social media strategist. As a former Lifestyle Editor at StyleCaster, she founded Nueva Yorka in 2015 and has since been featured on ABC News Nightline, The New York Times, Vogue, Paper Magazine, PopSugar, HuffPost, Yahoo and elsewhere.

Dove

Dove is the home of real beauty.

Cynthia Chavarria

Cynthia Chavarria is a writer who works at Getty Images in Chicago for the Latin American region. She also serves on Getty Images' Diversity and Inclusion Global Advisory Committee. Cynthia is passionate about staying socially aware, supporting her community, and giving back.

Candis McDow

Candis McDow is a writer out of Atlanta, GA. She has a B.S. in Mass Communications with a minor in Creative Writing. You can read her work in Chicken Soup for the Soul, PopSugar, and 6Twelve Magazine.

Brittany Menjivar

Brittany Menjivar is a Yale student studying English and Film. As a music journalist for The Young Folks, she can often be found interviewing and photographing rock bands. She is also a screenwriter and was named one of five AT&T Hello Lab screenwriting mentees in 2019. Her debut film, Fragile.com, premiered in Hollywood last year and has been featured in publications such as Vanity Fair and Mitú.

Gabriela Garcia

A graduate of the University of Southern California with a B.A. in Comparative Literature, Gabriela worked for literary agencies in the film and television industry in developing literary talent for studio films and network television. She went on to become a talent agent with Pakula/King & Associates in Beverly Hills, working with casting directors and studio executives from Warner Bros., Sony, Universal, Paramount, and Fox in the development and marketing of talent. Gabriela was previously the Content Marketing Director for Najera Consulting Group, a strategic consulting firm, and served on the Board of Directors for Teatro Vista. She was nominated by the Chicago Latino Network for Latino Entrepreneur of The Year and was a member of the Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce + 1871’s Latinx Incubator.

Gabriela is also a freelance TV writer for Remezcla.com and a contributing editor for TheEverymom.com. She resides just outside of Chicago with her husband and two children.

Judith Ruiz-Branch

Judith Ruiz-Branch is a passionate storyteller with a strong background in broadcast news. She has experience working in all mediums of media, from journalism to public relations. Judith cut her teeth in newsrooms across Chicago including CLTV, WGN-TV, WBEZ, Rivet Radio, Crain's Chicago Business, and Modern Brown Girl. Utilizing her newsroom training, she served as the Spanish Spokesperson for the Better Business Bureau and helped her department nearly triple media hits in her first year. Whether it’s writing the cover story for a lifestyle digital publication, cranking out copy for breaking news, drafting press releases and talking points, conducting media training, writing scripts and voicing for radio, covering city hall or conducting TV interviews in both English and Spanish, Judith's done it all, and she loves it all. At the core, Judith believes it all comes down to concise and compelling storytelling because we all have a story to tell.