Digame: Queer First-Gen Finance Jefa Lea Landaverde is Empowering Latinxs to Make Money Moves [Video]

Lea Landaverde, known as the Latina Wealth Activist, is using her platform to reshape financial narratives for BIPOC. She is a queer, first-gen Latina with over ten years of diverse experience in wealth management, investment banking, technology, and personal finance. As the Founder of Riqueza Collective, she provides bilingual financial education to the next generation of wealth builders. This year she hosted the first ever bilingual financial education summit – Riqueza Reimagined Virtual Summit. The Dallas-based jefa is also an award-winning educator who regularly hosts workshops and offers 1:1 coaching at universities and nonprofits.

Which Latina(s) have had the greatest impact on your life and why?

My Mother: Watching my mom grow into the jefa that she is today has really empowered me to continue to fight the norms of sociedad. My mom has helped build our family landscaping business through running the operations on the back end. A lot of what I know today as an entrepreneur …