• Borderlands
  • Consumer
  • Education
  • Government
  • Health
  • Indigenous
  • Justice
  • Money
  • Sports
  • Sustainability
  • Newscast
  • Carnegie-Knight News21
  • Special Reports
  • RSS
Skip to content
  • Carnegie-Knight News21
  • Special Reports
  • RSS

Cronkite News

  • Borderlands
  • Consumer
  • Education
  • Government
  • Health
  • Indigenous
  • Justice
  • Money
  • Sports
  • Sustainability
  • Newscast

Tag: tools

Raquel Solis is one of 12 graduates of the business growth mentorship program put on by the ImagiNexGen Institute of Excellence and Chicanos Por la Causa Prestamos CDFI Women’s Business Center. Solis says the “program really focused us on ourselves as women first,because in order to run our business, we need to be self-sufficient and make it a habit to prioritize our mental, emotional, physical and spiritual wellness first.” Photo taken on March 13, 2023, at Lash Bottega Salon in Phoenix. (Photo by Izabella Hernandez/Cronkite News)
Posted inEditor's Picks, Money, Social Justice

Women entrepreneurs focus on business, personal growth in new program

by Adnan Alam Mar 24, 2023Mar 27, 2023

PHOENIX – Raquel Solis, 29, always wanted to be her own boss. The desire grew stronger in high school, and in 2018, she signed up for cosmetology school. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Solis was working with her husband in construction. But that wasn’t her passion, and she realized it was time to […]

Sign up for daily headlines


© 2026 Cronkite News Powered by Newspack