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GEORGETOWN, Ky., March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — A very special RAV4 Hybrid rolled off the line at Toyota’s largest plant worldwide in Georgetown, Ky., earlier this month. What is so unique about it? Its striking exterior finish or its finely tuned hybrid powertrain capable of thrilling performance and efficiency? Yes! But the bestselling SUV also marked the 13th millionth vehicle assembled at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky (TMMK) since production started in 1988.

“On one hand, it’s hard to believe we have produced 13 million vehicles,” said Susan Elkington, TMMK president. “However, when you consider the dedication and skill of our Kentucky team it isn’t so hard to imagine. It’s incredible to think about our customers, their families, and all the places they’ve gone in our 13 million vehicles. Looking forward, we are excited about the future of mobility and being able to take more people, more places.”

TMMK, best known for producing the Camry and Avalon, began production of the RAV4 Hybrid in January 2020 as the result of multiple investments by Toyota, totaling over $1.5 billion since 2017. These investments were part of a larger commitment by the company to invest over $13 billion in its North American manufacturing operations from 2017 to 2021. That goal was reached a year early while creating over 6,500 jobs.

The 1,300-acre Georgetown campus, Toyota’s first plant in North America, represents an $8 billion investment and employs over 10,000 Kentuckians. It is also home to a powertrain facility on track to reach its own milestone this year, producing its 13 millionth engine.

“The engine is the heart of every vehicle and our powertrain team takes that responsibility very seriously,” said David Rosier, TMMK powertrain head. “We’re especially proud to be a part of Toyota’s commitment to alternative fueled vehicles and the future of mobility in North America.”

For 21 consecutive years, Toyota has been the leading manufacturer of alternative powered vehicle sales in the United States. By 2025, Toyota’s goal is to have 40% of new vehicle sales be electrified models, and by 2030 expects that to increase to nearly 70%. Globally, this commitment to alternative fueled vehicles has resulted in the avoidance of an estimated 139 million tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) into the atmosphere.

Toyota Kentucky is proud to recognize both milestones with a $1.3 million commitment to furthering STEM education and workforce development programs across the Commonwealth. Funds will be utilized to engage diverse and under-resourced youth by exposing them to great manufacturing career opportunities.  A few of the grant recipients include:

• Rise STEM Academy for Girls
• Jobs for America’s Graduates (JAG)
• Black Male Working (BMW) Academy
• Prichard Committee
• Partners for Youth

2021 is a year full of milestones for the automaker. In February, the company celebrated its 30 millionth North American produced vehicle – a Toyota Sienna produced at its Princeton, Ind., plant. Later this year, Toyota Kentucky will celebrate its 35th anniversary and the production of its 10 millionth Camry.

About Toyota


Toyota (NYSE:TM) has been a part of the cultural fabric in the U.S. for more than 60 years, and is committed to advancing sustainable, next-generation mobility through our Toyota and Lexus brands, plus our nearly 1,500 dealerships.

Toyota has created a tremendous value chain and directly employs more than 36,000 in the U.S. The company has contributed world-class design, engineering, and assembly of more than 30 million cars and trucks at our 9 manufacturing plants, 10 including our joint venture in Alabama that begins production in 2021.

To help inspire the next generation for a career in STEM-based fields, including mobility, Toyota launched its virtual education hub at

www.TourToyota.com

 with an immersive experience and chance to visit many of our U.S. manufacturing facilities. The hub also includes a series of free STEM-based lessons and curriculum through Toyota USA Foundation partners, virtual field trips and more.
For more information about Toyota, visit 
www.toyotanewsroom.com
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Global health service company Cigna (NYSE:CI) has named Lisa Wagamon president of its Medicare Advantage (MA) plans in the Carolinas. In this role, Wagamon will help oversee the growth of Cigna’s MA plans in North and South Carolina.

“This is an exciting time for Cigna’s MA business as we are rapidly growing by adding MA products and expanding geographies with the ultimate goal of providing more people with affordable, predictable and simple health care,” said Aparna Abburi, president of Cigna’s Medicare and CareAllies business.

Wagamon has more than two decades of experience in health care, including work with Medicare, Medicaid and commercial plans, as well as a strong background in provider network development.

“We are very pleased to welcome Lisa to the Carolinas,” said Charlie Pitts, market president, Carolinas, Cigna. “Cigna is now able to offer even more individuals a plan for every phase of their life.”

Expanded Medicare Advantage Offerings

MA plans are growing in popularity with individuals who qualify for Medicare because they combine Medicare Parts A and B in one convenient plan that can also include Part D drug coverage and additional benefits, such as vision and dental, sometimes at no extra cost. Cigna offers a variety of MA plans in the Charlotte, Greensboro / Winston-Salem, Charleston, and Greenville/ Spartanburg areas as well as Anderson and Pickens counties.

Cigna offers a $0 premium plan in all MA markets. The company also offers Medicare Supplement and Medicare Prescription Drug Plans in all areas in the Carolinas.

About Cigna
Cigna Corporation is a global health service company dedicated to improving the health, well-being and peace of mind of those we serve. Cigna delivers choice, predictability, affordability and access to quality care through integrated capabilities and connected, personalized solutions that advance whole person health. All products and services are provided exclusively by or through operating subsidiaries of Cigna Corporation, including Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, Evernorth companies or their affiliates and Express Scripts companies or their affiliates. Such products and services include an integrated suite of health services, such as medical, dental, behavioral health, pharmacy, vision, supplemental benefits and other related products.

Cigna maintains sales capability in over 30 countries and jurisdictions, and has more than 175 million customer relationships around the world. To learn more about Cigna®, including links to follow us on Facebook or Twitter, visit www.cigna.com. 

All Cigna products and services are provided exclusively by or through operating subsidiaries of Cigna Corporation, including Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company, Cigna HealthCare of South Carolina, Inc., Cigna HealthCare of North Carolina, Inc., Cigna HealthCare of Georgia, Inc., Cigna HealthCare of Arizona, Inc., Cigna HealthCare of St. Louis, Inc., HealthSpring Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc., HealthSpring of Florida, Inc., Bravo Health Mid-Atlantic, Inc., and Bravo Health Pennsylvania, Inc. The Cigna name, logos, and other Cigna marks are owned by Cigna Intellectual Property, Inc. Other providers are available in our network. Provider may contract with other Medicare Advantage plans.  Cigna complies with applicable Federal Civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex. Cigna cumple con las layes federales de derechos civiles aplicables y no discrimina por motivos de raza, color, nacionalidad, edad, discapacidad o sexo.  English: ATTENTION: If you speak English, language assistance services, free of charge, are available to you. Call 1-800-668-3813 (TTY 711). Spanish: ATENCIÓN: Si habla español, tiene a su disposición servicios gratuitos de asistencia lingüística. Llame al 1-800-668-3813 (TTY 711). Chinese: 注意：如果您使用繁體/中文，您可以免費獲得語言援助服務 請致電1-800-668-3813 (TTY 711). Cigna is contracted with Medicare for PDP plans, HMO and PPO plans in select states, and with select State Medicaid programs. Enrollment in Cigna depends on contract renewal. © 2020 Cigna

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NEW YORK, March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Hilco Streambank (www.HilcoStreambank.com) announced that it is seeking indications of interest to acquire assets, including the e-Commerce platform, related intellectual property assets, and public entity, of apparel and accessories retailer Le Château (www.lechateau.com) (NEX: CTU.H).

Enriched with a 60-year history that draws heavily on local design and manufacture for fashion conscious women and men, the Le Château brand is beloved for its special occasion and dress offerings. Complementing its 116 stores across Canada, the brand developed a robust e-Commerce platform, including proprietary technology, which accounted for $21.7 million or 13% of gross revenues for FY 2020. E-Commerce sales have enjoyed consistent year over year growth, including growth of over 17% between FY 2019 and FY 2020. Le Chateau’s loyal customer base trends heavily to 25- to 44-year old women who during the pandemic have shifted their demand to the direct sales channel generating over 50% growth in the current fiscal year.

“Le Château is well-known as Canada’s leading dress and occasion retailer,” commented Hilco Streambank Executive Vice President, David Peress. “The brand boasts a well-defined and accepted fashion sensibility and point of view with appeal to women in Canada and the US.”

The deadline for submitting indications of interest is Wednesday, April 7, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. EST (U.S.). Any sale is subject to approval of the Quebec Superior Court, District of Montreal, pursuant to the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act of Canada. Interested parties may learn more by visiting https://www.hilcostreambank.com/lechateau or by directly contacting one of the Hilco Streambank representatives listed below.

About Hilco Streambank 
Hilco Streambank is a market-leading advisory firm specializing in intellectual property disposition and valuation. Having completed numerous transactions including sales in publicly reported CCAA proceedings, U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, private transactions, and online sales through IPv4.Global, Hilco Streambank has established itself as the premier intermediary in the consumer brand, internet, and telecom communities. Hilco Streambank is part of Northbrook, Illinois-based Hilco Global, the world’s leading authority on maximizing the value of business assets by delivering valuation, monetization and advisory solutions to an international marketplace. Hilco Global operates more than twenty specialized business units offering services that include asset valuation and appraisal, retail and industrial inventory acquisition and disposition, and real estate and strategic capital equity investments.

Forward-Looking Statements
This news release may contain forward-looking statements relating to Le Château and/or the environment in which it operates that are based on Le Château’s reasonable expectations, estimates and forecasts. Forward-looking statements in this press release include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to the CCAA proceedings and the liquidation process. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict and/or are beyond Le Château’s control. A number of factors may cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially from those expressed. These factors also include those set forth in other public filings of Le Château. Therefore, readers should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. In addition, these forward-looking statements speak only as of the date made and Le Château disavows any intention or obligation to update or revise any such statements as a result of any event, circumstance or otherwise except to the extent required under applicable securities law.

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PORTSMOUTH, N.H., March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT) today announced that its Small Business Solutions group has been selected as winner of the “Business Lending Innovation Award” for its point-of-sale lending platform in the fifth annual FinTech Breakthrough Awards program. The recognition was awarded by FinTech Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global FinTech market.

Introduced as one of the market’s first B2B digital lending solutions, CIT’s point-of-sale platform simplifies and accelerates financing for business purchases of $2,500 or more, providing convenience and speed for qualified business customers.

“We are proud to receive our second FinTech Breakthrough recognition for our point-of-sale lending platform, which highlights our commitment to deliver technology-driven solutions to meet the unique needs of business owners,” said Ken Martin, managing director of CIT’s Small Business Solutions group. “This real-time, end-to-end financing solution is available 24/7 on any device, and we believe it transforms the business buying experience.”

Since receiving a FinTech Breakthrough Award for “Best Small Business Lending Solution” in 2018, CIT’s point-of-sale platform has been upgraded with enhanced digital features that make the B2B digital lending and payment process easier than ever.

Next-generation API technology enables equipment and technology vendors to integrate the lending platform into virtually any sales channel, including their existing B2B online e-commerce store.

Vendors can be live with the platform in minutes and are now empowered to provide real-time monthly payment quotes, get qualified customers approved, digitally design and select finance terms (generally 12 to 60 months), and automatically send electronic documents to customers for review and e-signature.

“We congratulate CIT for continuing to break through the FinTech space with their innovative financing solutions and services,” said James Johnson, managing director, FinTech Breakthrough. “CIT’s point-of-sale platform delivers a seamless experience with its anytime-anywhere, self-serve B2B lending features, and we are thrilled to recognize it for a second time with this award.”

The FinTech Breakthrough Awards is an industry recognized awards program founded to recognize the FinTech innovators, leaders and visionaries from around the world in a range of categories, including Digital Banking, Personal Finance, Lending, Payments, Investments, RegTech, InsurTech and many more. The 2021 FinTech Breakthrough Award program attracted more than 3,850 nominations from across the globe. In addition to CIT receiving an award for its point-of-sale platform in 2018, CIT’s national online bank, CIT Bank, has previously won FinTech Breakthrough Awards as the winner of the Best Personal Finance Company Award in 2019 and for its Savings Builder account in 2020.

CIT’s Small Business Solutions group focuses on empowering businesses via technology-enabled solutions and market-leading structuring expertise. Small Business Solutions is part of CIT’s Business Capital division, which provides equipment financing and vendor finance programs for small and midsized clients and their customers. Learn more about CIT’s point-of-sale platform.

About CIT
CIT is a leading national bank focused on empowering businesses and personal savers with the financial agility to navigate their goals. CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT) is a financial holding company with over a century of experience and operates a principal bank subsidiary, CIT Bank, N.A. (Member FDIC, Equal Housing Lender). The company’s commercial banking segment includes commercial financing, community association banking, middle market banking, equipment and vendor financing, factoring, railcar financing, treasury and payments services, and capital markets and asset management. CIT’s consumer banking segment includes a national direct bank and regional branch network. Discover more at cit.com/about.

About FinTech Breakthrough
Part of Tech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence and recognition platform for technology innovation and leadership around the globe, the FinTech Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to honoring excellence in Financial Technologies and Services companies and products. The FinTech Breakthrough Awards provide public recognition for the achievements of FinTech companies and products in categories including Payments, Personal Finance, Wealth Management, Fraud Protection, Banking, Lending, RegTech, InsurTech and more. For more information visit FinTechBreakthrough.com.

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SAN MATEO, Calif., March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Today, GoPro (NASDAQ: GPRO) launched a total refresh of its mobile app and gave it a new name to reflect its purpose. Aptly named Quik, the app makes it quick and easy to get the most out of your favorite photos and videos no matter what phone or camera you’re using. 

At its core, Quik solves the “black hole” problem of your phone’s camera roll and ensures you’ll never lose track of your favorite photos and videos again. The next time you capture that special “keeper” photo or video, you can conveniently share it to the Quik app where it will be added to your own private “Mural” feed within the app. You can also share images that already exist in your phone’s camera roll, text threads or wherever your favorite images may be. If you share multiple photos or videos at once to Quik, they’ll be grouped together as an event and the app will produce a compilation highlight video beat-synced to music—which you can adjust to your liking, if desired.

Quik also features a suite of powerful yet simple editing tools if you prefer to edit your photos and videos yourself.

“Quik makes it simple and fun to finally make sense of the vast number of photos and videos we all have on our phones,” said GoPro founder and CEO, Nicholas Woodman. “You don’t even have to open the Quik app to organize your images, simply share your favorite shots directly to Quik from your camera roll, text threads or wherever your best shots may be. We named it Quik because that’s what it is!”

“Helping people get the most out of their personal content represents an enormous long-term opportunity for our business and brand,” added Woodman.

Quik is available for iOS and Android and supports photos and videos from any modern phone or camera, including GoPros and DSLRs. 

Quik features and benefits include:

• Unlimited Importing of Your Favorite Photos and Videos: Import photos and videos from any phone or camera, including GoPros and DSLRs. Never lose track of your best shots, Quik makes it easy to enjoy them all in one app
• Unlimited Cloud Backup (Available Later This Year): Every photo and video you post to your Quik mural feed will be backed up at its original quality
• Automatic Video Creation: Create impressive music-synced videos by simply selecting the photos and videos you want to include along with a song from the included library or your own
• New GoPro Original Music: Choose from a growing list of royalty-free tracks curated in-house at GoPro or add your own music to your videos—all of which will automatically beat-sync to your videos
• Powerful Editing Tools: Adjust exposure, contrast, color, vibrancy; get creative with intuitive single and multi-clip video editing; add text, stickers and more
• New Video Speed Tool: Speed ramp your videos faster or slower and add super slo-mo and freeze frame segments at multiple points within in a single video clip
• GoPro-Exclusive Filters: Use dozens of filters, including many optimized for natural environment “looks,” including snow, desert, water and more
• Premium Themes: Choose from a growing list of sophisticated video edit themes, making it easy to give your videos a particular style or energy
• Frame Grabbing: Extract photo still images from your videos
• Easy Social Sharing: Post directly to Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and more, or share via text or email

Quik is free to download and use on a trial basis. Customers who want to unlock the app’s full capabilities can subscribe for just $1.99/month or $9.99/year. This will include unlimited cloud backup of your imported photos and videos at their original quality when the backup feature is released later this year.

GoPro Subscribers, who pay $49.99/year get all the benefits of a Quik subscription, plus:

• $100 off up to three new GoPro cameras a year
• Up to 50% off accessories at GoPro.com
• Unlimited cloud storage of their GoPro photos and videos at original quality
• High-quality live streaming from a GoPro to GoPro’s premium streaming platform
• Guaranteed damaged camera replacement

To celebrate Quik’s launch, GoPro is kicking off the Make It #Quik Awards Challenge to award the best Quik edits. To participate, submit your best edit made with the Quik app to GoPro.com/Awards.

Quik replaces the GoPro app in iOS and Android app stores today. Existing GoPro app users will see their app update upon install. For GoPro camera users, Quik features all of the capabilities of the previous GoPro app, plus so much more. Existing users’ photos and videos will transfer from the old GoPro app to the new Quik app upon install and any cloud-based footage will remain accessible. Learn more about Quik on GoPro.com.

About GoPro, Inc.
GoPro helps the world capture and share itself in immersive and exciting ways.

For more information, visit www.gopro.com. Members of the press can access official brand and product images, logos and reviewer guides by visiting GoPro’s press portal. GoPro customers can submit their photos, raw video clips and edits to GoPro Awards for an opportunity to be featured on GoPro’s social channels and receive gear and cash awards. Learn more at www.gopro.com/awards. Connect with GoPro on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube, and GoPro’s blog The Inside Line.

GoPro, HERO and their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of GoPro, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

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ROCKVILLE, Md., March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Addressing enterprise-scale text analytics problems by unlocking the full business potential of data language. That’s the guiding principle behind the first ever hackathon from expert.ai, enabling an agile way to develop and scale natural language aware applications by using the expert.ai NL API.

The hackathon, which ran on the Devpost platform from January 10 to February 22, 2021 with 5 prizes awarded, hosted an AI software engineering community of 1,000 developers worldwide. Participants were tasked with creating or enhancing an existing app by embedding natural language processing, word meaning disambiguation and sentiment analysis capabilities from the expert.ai NL API. Judges based project evaluations on three main criteria: creativity and uniqueness, integration with the expert.ai NL API and implementation quality, impact and potential value to users.

Expert.ai Natural Language & Text Analytics API Hackathon Winners:

• First place ($5,000): Peer Reviewers App which leverages the expert.ai NL API to extract key phrases to perform document similarity to help recommend peer reviewers for academic and scholarly journals and articles. Papers’ topics and main sentences are used to build an intelligent query to retrieve the best matching document from a document store built using Azure Cognitive Search

• Second place ($2,500): Legal Expert. Inspired by a real legal case, the app enables a complete analysis and summarization of legal documents, streamlining entity extraction (people, companies, and much more.)

• Third place ($1,000): Markup Expert helps you generate structure-data markup by analyzing the content of webpages, e.g. blog entries and articles, to suggest Schema.org (which is supported by major search engines including Google, Bing, Yandex and Yahoo!) markups that can be added to your website.

• 1^st honorable mention ($500): Timeless AI. How many times do you find yourself skipping through a YouTube timeline trying to find a specific part of a long video or tutorial? This app provides a seamless learning experience by reducing time and hassles in finding specific pieces of information in videos.

• 2^nd honorable mention ($500): AI Tutor. Covid-19 has severely disrupted education, and there is a need for solutions supporting the learning experience. Designed for students, this app automatically generates questions for any content, and students can explore areas and subjects they need to improve as well as related content of interest.

• 3^rd honorable mention ($500): Business Card Wallet scans business cards and adds them to an app wallet. App users can make calls or send email from there; additionally, they can export contacts to their phones, and easily find name, company, title/job, address, email, etc.

“The number and variety of submissions to the expert.ai NL API hackathon are remarkable,” said Marco Varone, Chief Technology Officer at expert.ai. “We have long believed in the power of our natural language and to see how developers and students are adopting our technology to create new and better solutions is an exciting moment.”

To learn more about the expert.ai Natural Language & Text Analytics Hackathon winners, visit the expert.ai Community: https://community.expert.ai/news-updates-2/nl-text-analytics-api-hackathon-winners-announced-83 

About expert.ai

Expert.ai is the premier artificial intelligence platform for language understanding. Its unique hybrid approach to NL combines symbolic human-like comprehension and machine learning to transform language-intensive processes into practical knowledge, providing the insight required to improve decision making throughout organizations. By offering a full range of on-premise, private and public cloud offerings, expert.ai augments business operations, accelerates and scales data science capabilities and simplifies AI adoption across a vast range of industries including Insurance, Banking & Finance, Publishing & Media, Defense & Intelligence, Life Science & Pharma, Oil Gas & Energy, and more. The expert.ai brand is owned by Expert System (EXSY:MIL), that has cemented itself at the forefront of natural language solutions, and serves global businesses such as AXA XL, Zurich Insurance Group, Generali, The Associated Press, Bloomberg INDG, BNP Paribas, Rabobank, Dow Jones, Gannett, and EBSCO.

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NEW YORK, March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Meredith Corporation’s (NYSE: MDP: Meredith.com) PEOPLE EN ESPAÑOL invites the career-minded Hispanic community to continue celebrating Women’s History Month through its Poderosas Virtual Conference aimed at empowering and educating Latinas. This year’s highly anticipated event will highlight the growth of Latina power through the years. The virtual event, which is free, will be held on March 26th, beginning at 8:00 p.m. EDT and will have a live chat function for a more interactive experience. Registration is available HERE.

Celebrity panelists joining this year include content creator and TV presenter Carolina Sandoval; CEO of JRE Enterprises Rosie Rivera; actress and TV host Adamari López; entrepreneur and New York Times best-selling author Nely Galán, among others.

Here’s what to look forward to at this year’s Poderosas Virtual Conference:

• Gender Equality in Urban Music – An empowering conversation with some of the most talented women in Latin music’s urban-reggaeton arena featuring: global Latin urban artist Natti Natasha and Latin urban stars Cazzu, Farina, and La Duraca. The eye-opening session will be moderated by PEOPLE en Español Entertainment Editor Carole Joseph and will showcase the artists’ journeys for gender equality and proper representation in a competitive, male-dominated industry.
• The Power to Empower: Women Changing the World by Giving Others a Voice – An in-depth discussion showcasing the importance of mentorships and becoming true community changemakers by empowering others. This intimate panel features People en Español’s “Ahijada and Madrina” (goddaughter and godmother) winners, including actress and TV host Adamari López and her goddaughter Angie Benítez, along with this year’s “25 Most Powerful Women” winner Mariangie Bras, who is admired for her work helping children with cancer in Puerto Rico through the organization Fundación CAP.
• New Recipes for Entrepreneurship Success: The Next Generation of Latino Visionaries – An enriching conversation with a power-group of Latino entrepreneurs who showcase how they’ve built their businesses from the ground up and share their secrets to outsmart unexpected challenges, along with mastering the art of winning. Panel speakers include celebrity makeup artist and founder of cosmetics brand Artist Couture Angel Merino; healthy chef and restaurateur Michelle Posada; and Natalie Molina Niño, investor (builder capitalist), entrepreneur, and author of the book, Leapfrog, The New Revolution for Women Entrepreneurs.
• Health Is Wealth: Strategies to Prioritize Yourself & Improve Your Life – CEO of JRE Enterprises Rosie Rivera and content creator and presenter Carolina Sandoval share the keys to reaching your full potential by sharing tips to take control of your mental, physical, and spiritual health while emphasizing the importance of self-care for overall success and happiness.
• Five Powerful Career Advancements Habits for Professional Women – Fearless trailblazers – including independent journalist and CBS News contributor María Elena Salinas, Univision Senior Vice President of Human Resources Roxanna Flores, and CEO of Red Shoe Movement Mariela Dabbah – open up about the challenges they’ve faced throughout their careers and share secrets about how to equate failures to learnings and tips on self-mastery.
• Don’t Buy Shoes, Buy Buildings! Invest Like a Self-Made Woman and Make Money While You Sleep – Entrepreneur and New York Times best-selling author Nely Galán shares her personal journey to becoming a self-made go-getter by saving, investing, and dreaming bigger. During the motivating session, she’ll highlight tips on reaching financial freedom and working smarter, rather than harder.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America is thrilled to return as a sponsor for this year’s festivities.

Recognized as one of the nation’s largest Hispanic multimedia and entertainment companies, Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc., (SBS) and LaMusica App are also excited to join as media partners.

ABOUT PEOPLE EN
ESPAÑOL
PEOPLE EN ESPAÑOL was launched in 1996 as a special issue and has become the top-selling Hispanic magazine in the United States today. Published nine times a year, PEOPLE EN ESPAÑOL reaches an audience of 7 million every month with its editorial mix of Hispanic and popular entertainment, fashion and beauty trends and compelling human interest stories. PEOPLE EN ESPAÑOL delivers original editorial content that captures the values, contributions and impact of today’s Hispanics in the United States. The brand’s social media footprint includes 1.4 million followers on Twitter, over 4.2 million “Likes” on Facebook and 3.5 million followers on Instagram. For daily news, photos, exclusive behind-the-scenes video and celebrity scoops, visit www.peopleenespanol.com and follow PEOPLE EN ESPAÑOL on Twitter at @peopleenespanol. Related link: http://www.peopleenespanol.com

ABOUT MEREDITH CORPORATION’S NATIONAL MEDIA GROUP
Engaging 95 percent of American women across every stage and every day of their lives, Meredith Corporation’s National Media Group is home to 40+ iconic brands, including PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Allrecipes, Southern Living, REAL SIMPLE and Magnolia Journal. The company provides trusted content and experiences that resonate with a massive, highly receptive audience, reaching consumers where they are across digital, magazines, social platforms, video, audio and connected home assistants. Meredith’s powerful brands have enabled the company to become the No. 2 licensor globally, including more than 3,500 SKUs of branded products at Walmart. Meredith’s businesses also include leading affinity marketer Synapse, award-winning creative content studio Foundry and the Meredith Data Studio, whose proprietary first-party data and insights are leveraged for National Media Group offerings.

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