Passionate Mexican Woman, former IT by profession and dedicated to coffee by election, she created a company called Olla express cafe in 2017, using her own nostalgia and homesickness craving for cafe de olla.

She created a cultural concept through gastronomy innovating with unique and traditional latin flavors for a lovely experience. Rescuing recipes from her Abuelas, starting in a vintage mobile unit and growing the brand in a long journey from a coffee truck and all the way to retail with her Piloncillo Syrup considered one of the best products in Texas in 2021. She opened a brick and mortar in 2023 in Downtown San Antonio with a great potential to be an amazing reference of Mexican hospitality and a must go place to visit in San Antonio as a tourist and locals as well.

Tiana Symmonds is the Founder and Leadership Architect of AskTiana Solutions, a premier leadership architecture and strategic advisory firm. The company helps high-achieving leaders move from mere occupancy to absolute Architectural Sovereignty™ by designing new professional floor plans. AskTiana Solutions started in 2025 when Tiana realized she was an Architect living in a world of Firefighters and wanted to fix the broken wiring before the fire starts. She acts as a fractional leader and leads The Architect's Circle™, a 6-month build season that moves executives from tactical labor to sovereign design. Tiana believes that data-rich does not mean people-poor and works to ensure leaders stop being the insulation that keeps everyone else warm while they are freezing in the draft.

Press & Recognition: To date, she has been recognized for co-inventing a patented AI-driven returns system at Amazon and earning a perfect 100 Net Promoter Score for her flagship program. Her work has also been featured in YES, HONEY.

J. Faith Bio is the Founder and CEO of Iron Grace, LLC dba Peace n’ Pilates, a culturally rooted Pilates brand offering community-based wellness experiences and premium athleisure. Her mission is to make Pilates accessible, culturally inclusive, and transformative for women, especially women of color, through movement, mindfulness, and community.

Peace n’ Pilates was founded in 2025 after Faith experienced a personal shift through Pilates, using fitness as a way to reconnect with her faith, discipline, and inner peace. As Founder and CEO, she leads brand strategy, class programming, instructor development, and the expansion of both pop-up experiences and a future studio model.

Faith believes that wellness should not be exclusive, but a lifestyle that empowers women to feel strong, grounded, and aligned in every aspect of their lives.

To date, Peace n’ Pilates has hosted curated wellness events and continues to build a growing community across the DMV and Dallas metroplex.

Enrique Treviño is a Texas entrepreneur and founder of a family-owned snack company focused on creating bold, innovative products with strong local roots. Starting from a small operation, Enrique built the business through hard work, creativity, and a passion for developing unique snacks that stand out in the market. He is best known for products like Good Find Pork Rinds and Coco Chops, which combine quality ingredients with original flavor concepts. With a background in business and a hands-on approach to leadership, Enrique is focused on expanding production, investing in larger-scale operations, and growing partnerships with major retailers across Texas and beyond.

Gabrielle Nguyen is the Owner of APDAT Print Co., a screen printing shop and event screen printing company. Her mission to provide brands a fun and interactive way to get in front of their audience. APDAT Print Co. was founded in 2014 when a local band needed merch for their show. Word-of-mouth spread like wildfire and they quickly became the go-to shop for promotional merch. After figuring out how to take their print shop on the road, APDAT Print Co. started screen printing onsite at conferences and trade shows. As the Owner of APDAT Print Co., Gabrielle is the first point of contact for quotes, setting up event logistics, and everything in-between including payroll and day-to-day business operations. She relies on her production team to make the merch magic happen. With a background in brand identity, Gabrielle believes that creating a unique brand experience can leave a memorable impression on their audience. To date, APDAT Print Co. has been featured in Voyage Houston and recognized by wholesale shirt vendors as a specialist in live event screen printing.

Marisa Gonzalez is the Founder and Clinical Director of Juniper Therapy, a telehealth therapy practice licensed in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Colorado specializing in ADHD, trauma, and couples therapy.

Her mission is to make high-quality, identity affirming mental health care accessible to LGBTQ+ communities, neurodivergent adults, and underserved populations across three states. Juniper Therapy was founded when Marisa recognized that the clients who needed support the most faced the most barriers, to finding culturally responsive care, to affording it, and to accessing it at all.

As Founder and Clinical Director, Marisa oversees all clinical operations, provides supervision to pre-licensed MFT associates, and manages multi-state licensure and insurance credentialing. Marisa believes that diverse practice owners are as essential to mental health equity as diverse clinicians and that building one is an act of community care.

Diana DiPietro built Swoon from a vision that was deeply personal and, in many ways, counter-cultural. In an industry that often rewards speed, volume, and transactional efficiency, Diana chose a different pat, one grounded in foundational excellence, mentorship, and the radical belief that a beauty appointment can be genuinely transformational for the person receiving it.

As a Latina entrepreneur, Diana brings to her work a cultural inheritance of resilience, warmth, and community-first values. She understands from lived experience what it means to navigate systems that were not designed with women like her in mind — systems that too often underestimate the ambition, skill, and economic potential of minority women business owners. She built Swoon not despite those barriers, but in direct response to them.

Her business reflects who she is: a woman who leads with empathy and operates with integrity. From the atmosphere she has cultivated — what her clients describe as a space that "breathes heart" — to her commitment to developing confident, skilled women professionals on her team, every decision Diana makes is rooted in purpose. She is not simply running a business. She is proving a thesis: that excellence and empathy, when combined, create something the market is hungry for and that communities genuinely need.

"She built Swoon not despite the barriers, but in direct response to them."

Marathon Kids is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving youth health and wellness by helping kids build lifelong habits of movement through running and physical activity programs. Since 1995, Marathon Kids has supported schools, coaches, and communities with free, evidence-based tools and technology designed to get kids moving in fun, inclusive, and goal-oriented ways.

Our core offering is the Marathon Kids program and digital platform, Marathon Kids Connect, which enables schools and youth organizations to easily launch and manage run clubs and physical activity programs. Through our platform, educators and coaches can roster participants, track miles and active minutes, celebrate milestones, and engage families and communities in supporting student wellness. We also provide curriculum resources, rewards systems, reporting tools, and district-level integrations that help schools scale participation while reducing administrative burden.

What makes Marathon Kids unique is our focus on accessibility and sustainability. Our programs are designed to work in underserved and under-resourced communities, ensuring every child has the opportunity to experience the physical, social, and emotional benefits of movement regardless of background or ability level.

At our core, Marathon Kids exists to create joyful movement experiences that help children develop confidence, resilience, goal-setting skills, and healthy habits that can last a lifetime.