Alejandra Graf is a Mexican food lover and wellness pusher that follows a plant based diet. She has a degree in Art History and a Professional Certification as a Plant-base Cook. A few years ago, she became the voice behind Piloncillo&Vainilla, a blog about her experiences, food philosophy and recipes. She lives in Houston,Tx with her husband and three kids.

Naturally curious, Outer Banks Epicurean Amy Huggins is an educator, a feeder, and a collector of local food lore who loves to help others find their foodjoy. Amy teaches that eating is a lifestyle choice and in her classes she shares her enthusiasm for healthy foods, ingredient exploration, flavor profile combinations, and artful meal presentations.

Anna Cherry was born in Missouri, raised in Arkansas, lived in Spain for two years, and is now residing in a Dominican neighborhood of New York City. Her Spanish isn’t as good as it should be. She’s a freelance writer and contributing editor at ¡Vaya Madrid!. Her work has appeared in Education Week Teacher, The Awl, and The Hairpin. Anna’s 5-year plan includes living in Central and South America, specifically Mexico City, Guadalajara, Buenos Aires, and Santiago de Chile. She may never marry, but if she does, she intends to make it someone with the last name Garcia, so her last name can be Cherry-Garcia, like the ice cream. She is a fan of ice cream. Find her on Twitter @unacereza. She wants to be your friend.

Christine Gutierrez is a psychotherapist, advice columnist, speaker, author, poet, and founder of Christineg.tv an online hub that features psychologically-savvy and soulful advice, articles, videos, private consultations, workshops, retreats (both live and virtual), radio appearances, and television projects. “Ancient wisdom with a modern twist” is the motto. She has been featured in TimeOut NY Magazine, Latina Magazine as “The Future 15: The Healer,” Yahoo Health, Ebony Magazine, Cosmopolitan for Latinas, The Conversation, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Ricki Lake, Lifetime TV, and more. You can also follow Christine on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram And sign up for her weekly newsletter at: www.christineg.tv

Certified Etiquette Consultant, Award-Winning Lifestyle Blogger and Motivational Speaker, Claudia writes in her blog and collaborates in many other Lifestyle social platforms. She is also a regular contributor in Despierta América morning show @Univision, sharing tips and advice with the audience. Her blog, cafeconclaudia.com is a welcoming platform where all Latina women find tips on everyday manners, beauty + image, and personal wellbeing. You can chat with her there, and also @cafeconclaudia on Instagram + Twitter.

Dalia Ceja has been surrounded by wine, food, and travel her entire life. She may have grown up in the wine industry but she comes from very humble beginnings. In the late 1960’s her grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico, worked in the vineyards, and settled in the Napa Valley. With her parents as her role models, hard work and education have been the forefront of Dalia’s drive to excel. In 2008 she graduated from San Francisco State University with a B.A. in Marketing & Communications. After graduating from college she departed on a 6-month backpacking journey through South America, learning, exploring and enriching her life with new experiences. This trip became the anchor for a blog that she would launch in 2011.

Damaly Gonzalez is a traveler, Latino culture lover, yogi and mentor director. Born and raised in Williamsburg, Brooklyn from Puerto Rican parents. Damaly, which means beautiful vision in Arabic, has been around the world, everywhere from Brazil to India. In the Summer of 2012, after deciding to quit her two jobs, she backpacked the Caribbean for 4 months. Her website, BackpackingtheCaribbean.com, is a travel guide on Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. She plans to backpack Cuba soon and is okay if she is not allowed back in the country. You can follow her life and travel journeys on Instagram @damaly.

Tri-lingual travel nut Ginger Cline has spent time researching women's empowerment in India, frequenting obscure museums in France, and teaching English as a foreign language in Spain. She holds a master's degree in International Relations from the Universidad Autónoma in Madrid, Spain, and completed a Fulbright Scholarship in Paris, France. Back in the U.S. after four years abroad, she now has her sights set on law school, where she plans to pursue a career in immigration law.

An all-around beauty enthusiast, Gladys Rivera proudly faults her mother for her obsession. She’s a free spirit, sun worshipper and a dessert aficionado—among other things. A Napa Valley native and the voice of the beauty blog Why I Love July, she enjoys a night of dancing and the occasional glass of wine. Gladys works in the tech industry out of Los Angeles, California.

Evelyn is a self-proclaimed Latina Fashionista.

She loves everything fashion, from finding great deals to putting outfits together. She loves to look at high-end designers, but she doesn't scoff at Target, H&M, Vintage Shops, or even eBay!

After being a stay at home mom for 17 years and raising 2 kids, Evelyn finds that now, at last, she has time to do what she loves, shopping and working in fashion. She is also a self-proclaimed shoe addict and adds to her collection regularly.

Evelyn hopes to inspire the 40-something community: "Ladies, being in our 40s doesn't mean we can’t be fashionable. Fashion is about having fun, expressing yourself and feeling fabulous when you walk out that front door." As long as we still look and feel good, we should continue to “rock it!"

"I find that as I’ve gotten older, I'm much more confident, and will wear anything I like without hesitation—as long as my look remains Elegant, Sophisticated and Classy!"

Evelyn represents FashionistaOver40, mujer Latina con estilo y elegancia.

For the last four years, Maritere Rodriguez Bellas wrote a features column for Vista magazine, which is distributed nationally via the ImpreMedia group. For eleven years, her highly regarded weekly column, Pizarrón Familiar, appeared in La Opinión, the largest Spanish language newspaper in the country. She also wrote for Ser Padres and Healthy Kids en Español for several years. Currently, she is a contributing writer for todobebé.com with her weekly blog, entitled Arroz con Pollo and Apple Pie. Ms. Bellas’s first book, Raising Bilingual Children, was published was by Simon and Schuster in English, September 2014. Ms. Bellas second book entitled, Arroz con Pollo and Apple Pie: Raising Bi-cultural Children, is due out later this year.

Morena Escardó is a bilingual health and wellness coach and writer. She is the author of Detox Juicing: 3-Day, 7-Day, and 14-Day Cleanses for Your Health and Wellbeing, and The Everything Peruvian Cookbook. In 2011, she started the blog Peru Delights together with her mother, where she focuses on the health aspects of her country’s food, including superfoods, and vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free versions of Peruvian staples. She lives in NYC.

Born and raised in Miami, Rebecca San Juan left the Sunshine state to move to Mount Holyoke College for college. There she discovered her passion for analyzing the world through history and politics; in particular she enjoys learning about US-Latin American relations. She interned at Telemundo as well as Telemundo 51. Before concluding her internship at Telemundo 51, she was promoted from intern to freelance associate producer. When she isn’t writing an article or an academic paper, San Juan enjoys visiting local bookstores. Get the latest by following her on Twitter @rebecca_sanjuan

Eva Sage Gordon grew up in coastal Rhode Island, and has since lived in 5 countries—most recently in Madrid, Spain. She is co-founder and editor of Penumbra, a bilingual literary magazine. Eva holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Spalding University and an M.A. in English from Saint Louis University. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and has been published in New Southerner, The Louisville Review, Prism Review, and elsewhere. She co-wrote The Everything Guide to Writing Children’s Books, 2^nd Edition. In April 2014, her play, Second Acts, was performed at the Université de Nice. She enjoys swimming, paddle boarding, and photographing donkeys at play.

Vanessa was raised bilingual in the mixing pot of the sunshine state, primarily next to the US / Mexico border. She loves exploring new cultural foods, traveling nationally and internationally, photography, giving back, and fashion. Vanessa has worked in fashion show production, PR, Promotions, Social Media, Marketing and Event Planning to name a few for brands and organizations like Dr. Pepper, Junior League, MillerCoors, San Diego Latino Film Festival and the NFL Chargers. She holds a degree in Media Arts and Political Science and works in Marketing; she considers herself a forever student. Her work has been included in Transworld, Business Magazine (on-line) and on various radio stations. You can follow her online at www.pipelinepepper.com or on Twitter and Instagram (@pipelinepepper).

Susie Jimenez is the star of HipLatina's new Spicy Tips, a video series promoting fun, flavorful kitchen adventures. Susie attended the California Culinary Academy, and later worked as manager, line cook, sous chef, and executive chef at several restaurants before being featured on the hit show Next Food Network Star, Season 7. Susie holds sessions where she teaches students to cook with a variety of unexpected techniques and flavor combinations. She’s the owner of Spice it Up Catering, hosts several radio and television shows in Aspen, CO, and is HipLatina’s culinary expert.

Though he calls New York home and works as a project manager there, Bill is a travel enthusiast who traveled more than 100,000 miles last year to destinations ranging from Madrid to Mumbai. He enjoys singing along to Latin pop at parties and in the car, although his friends don’t always share the same passion (you can see him on snapchat at wro6278 si te gusta el pop latino!). Before he moved to his favorite city, he studied Spanish and Economics at Tufts University. Some of his goals over the next few years include opening an ice cream store in Mexico City (his favorite food and second favorite city) and traveling to Brazil to master his português. >.

Deborah Parrish was born in the Lone Star State, the fifth generation of rebellious and independent cattle ranchers homesteading the vast Texas plains. At thirty, she sold everything she owned, packed up her little red car, and drove westward, never looking back. Her superpower is shepherding companies and their leaders through profound transformation, helping people and organizations recover, reinvent, and grow their businesses.   She now enjoys her empty nest in Tomales, California with her husband, Chick, giving her plenty of time to write juicy romance novels and capture life through photographs. When she’s not working to feed her creative habits, she volunteers to support local community groups, live music, and youth development programs.  If she’s avoiding the daily chores, you can find her hiking, camping, kayaking, and creating one-of-a-kind adventures with friends and family. Follow her exploits on Instagram and Twitter @onedrfulife

Diana Rico is a seasoned journalist (ARTnews, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, GQ, O: The Oprah Magazine), book editor, and critically acclaimed author (Kovacsland: A Biography of Ernie Kovacs). In the past she was the Art and Architecture Writer for the Los Angeles Daily News, the Art Critic for NPR’s L.A. flagship station, KCRW-FM, and Editor-in-Chief of International Documentary magazine. Her work has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Association of Latino Independent Producers, and numerous other organizations. But at parties what everyone asks her about are the 14 episodes she produced and wrote of everyone’s guilty pleasure, The E! True Hollywood Story. A third-generation Puerto Rican raised in California—making her a bona-fide Califorican—she is currently working on a screenplay and communing with ravens and coyotes from her mountaintop home in Taos, New Mexico. There’s more about her here: www.dianarico.com.

Olga Maria is a New York City based travel and lifestyle Latina Writer. Through her blogazines, DreamsinHeels.com and more recently Latinaswhotravel.com, her aim is to inspire women to consider living more adventurous lives by embarking on journeys of self-discovery and curiosity. Leading by example, she intends to empower her readers to follow their dreams and to discover their inner self—in style! Her excursions of culture have led her to Asia, Europe, Latin America, Caribbean Islands, across the United States and to Canada. Olga is a free-spirited entrepreneur and enjoys making connections with people from all over the world. She has received several awards including one that named her the 2012 Next Generation Latina by MasterCard and Latina Magazine. As a foodie and wine enthusiast, Olga loves to share her experiences and tips, and has done so in Expedia UK Travel Guides, NY Daily News, Vetta Magazine, and elsewhere.

The San Juan native graduated from the School of Communications at the University of Puerto Rico, and has followed an aritistic journey of more than thirty years from international journalism to public relations. Green has also become TV on-air talent, beginning on Tu Mañana on Univision Network and Los 6 de la Tarde during the 1st season. She is currently a weekly guest on La Buena Vida TV, and is the host of La Rosa de Guadalupe that airs on Una Buena Tarde. Married with four children, Uka shares her life stories with honesty, inspiration, and humor through her column: “Uka Green Cuarentaytantos”, which has established a strong community on social media. Today Uka Green is one of the most sought after communication strategists in the music industry in Puerto Rico.

A native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Lorena is a rising Makeup Youtube star. Through beauty tutorials she teaches makeup application and shares beauty tips. A cosmetology graduate of the Modern Hairstyling Institute, she is emerging as one of the most promising Latinas in the field of beauty vlogging. At the age of 22, Lorena Sebastian has already found her own voice in beauty, with effective tutorials that seek to educate and entertain with a touch of humor.

Katie Sterr grew up on the mean streets of Joliet, IL—a southwest suburb of Chicago, known mostly for its prison (you may remember Joliet Jake from Blue’s Brothers). She just recently graduated with her MA in English Literature from Marquette University, where she taught writing for two years, and is now on a quest (some might say scramble) to find the next path. She has tutored students in the writing center at Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus, and has written a travel blog for Bradley University. At Marquette she taught Rhetoric and Composition for two years, where she strove to push her students to think about connecting to their specific audience. Katie lived briefly in Madrid, Spain, and is hoping to live in Europe again someday. She hopes to continue traveling the world, and keep writing as she goes. Follow her on Instagram at kas27us.

Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Perla Sofía is the founder of Agrochic.com, a blog in Spanish, about gardening and urban agriculture. A well known journalist and media contributor in the Island, she found her niche, since 2009, to promote wellness and a healthy lifestyle through sharing trends, ideas and references on what to garden in your home and patio. She is an educator, mentor, mediapreneur and a hip stepmom of two young ladies.

Yizette Cifredo is a dynamic, compulsive optimist. As a motivational speaker ad vlogger, she entertains and animates. Her video series #BofetondeCariño is featured on HipLatina. As an actress & MC with TV & Web credits, she is an active and dynamic host with a focus on #FeelGoodContent. She can be found on Twitter and Instagram @YizetteCifredo #OptimistaCompulsiva

Monica L. Dashwood is a freelance writer for Wine Country This Week and blog writer for Wine Country Diaries. She is also the Founder and President of Gaining Insights, Inc. a professional and personal growth company, offering services and programs to organizations and individuals in transition. Latin blood runs in her veins. Her mother and father were born in Argentina (Buenos Aires and Mendoza respectively) and growing up, she lived on good Argentine food, wine and the tango, traveling back and forth from California to Buenos Aires.

Auna B. Grignoli is a currently a Sophomore at the University of San Francisco. Auna began writing at a young age, sneaking onto her mother’s desktop computer to write her own short stories and novels. At 19 years old, Auna continues to write everyday and share her passions of beauty and style with others. Her main goal is to empower all through her work, especially by spreading self-love and positivity. Learn more about her on her website: www.idratherbstargazing.xyz

Creative Entrepreneur + La Jefa at Cafe Con Leche Tara is a creative entrepreneur, TEDx speaker, 2014 Pittsburgh Magazine 40 Under 40, and has recently been named of of 2016 Creators of the Year by the Pittsburgh Technology Council. For over 10 years, Tara has been working in community-based organizations in New York City and Pittsburgh, focused on community organizing and economic development. Originally from Brooklyn, NY, Tara's passion for people led her to pursue her Masters in Social Work from The University of Pittsburgh. In 2014, Tara founded Cafe Con Leche, an award-winning events production + digital media company. Cafe Con Leche highlights authentic Latino culture using art + food. Tara uses her platform to inspire Latinos to express their creativity, celebrate their culture, and become innovative community leaders. When she is not running an empire, you can find Tara on a beach, sipping some wine at a vineyard, or exploring a new city.