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NM Rainforest University Center Info Session – UNM Gallup Meet a Mentor
Thursday, September 5, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
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New Mexico Rainforest University Center Fall Seminar Series
STC.UNM and the Innovation Academy are hosting their fall 2019 University Center Seminar series. The New Mexico Rainforest University Center provides entrepreneurial training and technical assistance at the University of New Mexico main- and branch-campus center sites. The seminars are free and open to the UNM community and the public via in-person or web access, but registration is required. A certificate program in entrepreneurial capabilities is available to UNM students and community members thru UNM’s Innovation Academy. If interested in the certificate program as part of the seminar series, please contact Cecilia Pacheco at cpacheco@stc.unm.edu.
Note: This seminar can be attended in person or online via livestream using Zoom and registering at the following link: https://zoom.us/j/403457559
Meet the Mentor – Vanessa Roanhorse
Would you like to start or grow your business? Join us to learn more and meet the mentor for UNM-Gallup, Vanessa Roanhorse. If you have an idea for a new business or would like to expand your business, Vanessa is available to you as a resource for discussions and mentoring on how to move forward.
About your mentor:
Vanessa Roanhorse, CEO of Roanhorse Consulting, LLC, launched Roanhorse Consulting in order to work with unheralded populations to achieve and aspire their self-determination by forging communities of practice, creating equity through entrepreneurship, and encouraging economic empowerment from within.
Vanessa got her management chops working for 7 years at a Chicago-based nonprofit, the Delta Institute, focused throughout the Great Lakes region to build a resilient environment and economy through creative, sustainable, market-driven solutions. Vanessa oversaw many of Delta’s on-the-ground energy efficiency, green infrastructure, community engagement programs, and workforce development training. Vanessa is a 2019 Village Capital Money Matters Advisory Board Member, sits on the local Living Cities leadership table, is a Startup Champions Network member, is an Advisor for emerging Navajo incubator, Change Labs, Advisor for Native Entrepreneurship in Residence Program, is a governing council board member for Siembra Leadership Highschool in Albuquerque and is the co-founder of Native Women Lead, an organization dedicated to growing native women into positions of leadership and business. Her academic education is in film from the University of Arizona but her professional education is from hands-on experience leading local, regional and national initiatives. Vanessa is Diné strong – Tó’áhání (Near the Water Clan), born for Tódích’íi’nii (Bitter Water Clan). Her grandfather on her mother’s side is Tábąąhá (Water’s Edge Clan), and her grandfather on her father’s side is Táchii’nii (Red Running Into the Water Clan).
Program funded by the U.S. Economic Development Administration, brought to you by STC.UNM and the UNM Innovation Academy