SER MUJER: Local Women Entrepreneurs

Wednesday, March 16, 2016 - 10:00am
Charlotte Bell, Suzanna Martínez, Hilaria Ramírez, Patricia, Araceli Granada Rojas, Sophia Trapp & Zermeño Williams

Women from four entrepreneurial ventures talk about their work and how they are helping other women in their community. From Las Rancheritas, Charlotte Bell (Consultant) and Suzanna Martínez (Member) will discuss The Rug Hook Project; a co-op initiative that sells home-made art rugs. Hilaria Ramírez from Mujeres Productores de Montecillo, will discuss the all-women co-operative she founded, which sells natural, organic products. Patricia Zermeño Williams will talk about the plumbing company she started called ‘Better Call Patty.’ From the Lavender Project and Adelante Juntos por La Colorada, Sophia Trapp (Consultant) and Araceli Granada Rojas (Executive Director of ADC) will speak about their rural farming enterprise.

 

 

UPCOMING TOURS

June 15, 2025 to June 25, 2025
Join us in an exciting visit to Cuba--a country committed to building socialism. We will learn about Cuba’s stunning accomplishments such as free health care and education, its collective production in agricultural and urban cooperatives, We will dialogue with leading thinkers about their visions... Read more
March 3, 2025 to March 7, 2025

We will depart from San Miguel early in the morning to Patzcuaro, where we will spend three days. We will visit the most important buildings and churches in Patzcuaro and also visit a number of nearby indigenous villages:

Upcoming Forums & Films

Monday, March 3, 2025 - 1:00pm
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Omar S. Dahi
Location:
Join in person at the Hotel Quinta Loreto Community Room

Omar S. Dahi is Professor of Economics at Hampshire College and Founding Director of Security in Context, a research network on peace, conflict, and global affairs. He was born and raised in Syria and currently lives with his wife and two children in Amherst. Dahi has served as a lead expert on the United Nations Economic and Social... Read more

Monday, March 17, 2025 - 1:00pm
CST
Harry Targ
Location:
Join in person at the Hotel Quinta Loreto Community Room

Behind the turmoil of the Ukraine and Israeli wars, tensions between the United States and China, African contestation over neo-colonial political, economic, and military influence, and US meddling in the politics of Latin America, there are fundamental forces in play that seek to rearrange and change the architectures of global social... Read more