Hola Comunidad! It’s been a high-energy week. Between powerful new members joining our ranks and deep dives into AI strategy, Here is your quick summary of what happened: ☕️ New Member Welcome: The community is growing! Let’s give a massive #BuildTheFuture welcome to our new members: - @Araceli Ruiz OClair: An ICF-credentialed executive coach and Director of Schools based in Denver, bringing 20 years of complex leadership experience. - @Lucia Valdivia: Co-Founder of Bolta AI. She joined because she (rightly) believes Latino founders are building the ecosystem's most revolutionary companies. - @Crystal Diaz: A former financial leader in life sciences/biomedical tech, now focused on building her own venture. - Take Action: Jump into the Main Forum, find their intros, and drop a welcome comment! 🔥 Hot Topics & AI Insights: Join us tomorrow evening from 6 pm to 7:30 pm to listen in, as @David Favela and @Cynthia Vazquez discuss how to Build Your LEAN Startup with AI. You don't want to miss this. - Notebook LM Deep Dive: @Teresa Valenzuela highlighted how to use this tool within the podcast feature to generate an intelligent debate or critique of your business model or marketing plan. (Don’t sleep on this!) 🏆 Founder Wins & Opportunities - @Alejandro Ruelas just powered major activations for Vuori and Lexus, driving incredible hands-on leathercraft community storytelling. - @Chris Bustos just published a deeply personal new opinion piece with The Latino Newsletter. Let’s show our support—go check it out and share it! 📰✍️ - SBIR Funding: @Armando Galvan-Holbrook do Galvan-Holbrook wants to remind everyone to get your non-dilutive funding submissions ready. Head over to http://sbir.gov/ and secure that capital. 💸 - AI Event: @Hilda Soto is inviting the community to the upcoming "AI That Works For You Summit" (FREE, June 15-17). Don't miss out on these insights. 🧠

I’m Araceli Ruiz O’Clair, based in Denver. I’m a proud Latina, a lifelong educator currently serving as a Director of Schools. For over 20 years, I've worked inside complex public school systems, doing everything from mentoring principals to developing leadership teams. Today, I use all that real-world experience as an ICF-credentialed executive coach. My Big Challenge: Social media! 📲 My entire career has been spent face-to-face in the field. Trying to compress years of leadership and human-centered work into short, punchy digital content feels like a totally different language to me. I’m here to learn from you all and offer any support I can to the community. Thanks for creating this space!