Weekly Blog_2

Today I attend three online webinars , the first two was hosted by a website called the Riveter . The Riveter is a women owned networking site ,they host events and have chatroom for different subject for example they have a chat room just for women with children or another chat was for entrepreneur . Today Topic was about  Covid-19 effects  on low-income communities and how we can better support less fortunate. they also spoke about the discrimination against Asian communities .  The second webinar was about investing into startup tech companies , the webinar had two guest speaker Courteney Real and Asra Nadeem . Asra Nadeem is the vice-president of Draper U and Courteney Real is the creator of podcast RiseHer.

  

 

The second webinar was hosted by Future for us , which is a platform dedicated to helping and advancing women of color careers. Today  guest was Natalie Torres-Haddad , she works in  finance  . she gave us finance advice how to prepare for after Covid-19 is over . Setting up a retirement fund and emergency fund. She told us  we need to change the stigma around money and save in the low income communities. we need to investing in our own communities.

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