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USMCA SME Counselors, small business advisors, women-owned small businesses and women’s economic empowerment organizations are invited to attend a webinar and conversation with Women’s Business Centers Counselors in the U.S., Canada and Mexico to:
🎆 Discuss women’s business centers’ best practices with experts on the ground growing women-owned businesses
🎆 Gain insights on effective support and outreach to rural and minority women entrepreneurs
🎆 Be part of the conversation providing suggestions for future trainings to grow women-owned businesses across North America
SBA Office of International Trade is partnering with U.S. Trade Representative, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Association of Women’s Business Centers and the Governments of Mexico and Canada to hold a virtual best practices discussion on tips for reaching women entrepreneurs and helping them to grow in North America. This training was the brainchild of Corinne Goble and is an opportunity to learn from organizations having success reaching women, rural entrepreneurs, and Latinas to scale through entrepreneurship.
The activity falls under the auspices of the United States Mexico Canada Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Committee and features the following women’s business counseling organizational representatives:
· Corinne Goble, CEO, U.S. Association of Women’s Business Centers
· Wendy Cukier, Founder and Academic Director, Toronto Metropolitan University Diversity Institute and Canada’s Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub, Toronto, Ontario
· Norma Alicia Ramírez Hinojosa, National President of the Coordinating Council of Women Entrepreneurs, CCME
· Perla Edith Pacheco Cortez, President of the Mexican Association of Women Entrepreneurs, AMMJE
· Valeria Olave, Regional Manager | Director Regional, Albuquerque Women’s Business Center
· Queenie Choo, CEO, S.U.C.C.E.S.S., Vancouver, British Columbia
· Charlene Brophy, CEO, FONEMED, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador
· Miriam Anjuly Saavedra Cortez, Undersecretary of Growth and Economic Development at the Secretariat of Economic Development of the state of Oaxaca