Hispanic Heritage Month: Contributions of the Past, Present & Future

Yai Vargas is a career & diversity strategist who helps organizations develop engaging programs focused on career and leadership development. With a background in multicultural marketing and communications, Yai is a natural born community builder and is known as the networking and LinkedIn Ninja. Yai leads the Financial Women’s Association Emerging Leaders network of New York, has worked to develop money investing workshops for women with Ellevest, has been featured in MakersMoney, has spoken on Yahoo Finance, featured in Forbes for her work with Latina Equal Pay Day and is an ambassador to The Financial Gym. Yai is also founder of The Latinista, a national network of women and Latina professionals invested in professional development and career mobility. Today The Latinista offers a series of skill-building, activity driven, hands-on sessions, specifically designed to help identify and sharpen career and business skills required to achieve professional goals. The Latinista has chapters in New York City, Chicago, Miami and LA. #TheLatinista