Across the Americas Reception: Meet Young Entrepreneurs From Nine Latin American and Caribbean Countries

As Atlanta hosts some of the brightest entrepreneurs from across the Americas this month, Georgia Council for International Visitors and Global Atlanta are joining forces for an evening reception designed to help them expand their hemispheric networks in the city’s growing tech community.

Join us for a chance to meet and mingle with impressive young leaders from Colombia, Guatemala, Brazil, the Bahamas, Suriname, Ecuador, Antigua and Barbuda, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic at Constellations in downtown Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn District, where we’ll share ideas and solutions over drinks and pan-Latin bites from Lottafrutta.

The 12 Atlanta participants were selected as part of the U.S. State Department’s Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative, or YLAI, a prestigious program bringing 280 under-35 social and business innovators to 19 cities across the U.S.

Here, they’ll be embedded in the innovation and nonprofit ecosystem for four weeks, using the exchange to access training, tools and networks that will bolster their organizations, in turn strengthening social and economic development across the region. They’ll also garner feedback on pitches they’ve crafted to identify a solution to one of their enterprise’s most pressing problems. One will emerge as the “YLAI Ambassador” for Atlanta and will move on to represent the cohort nationally.

These high-impact entrepreneurs are active in the following sectors:

• Education
• Poverty Reduction
• Life Coaching
• Marketing & Design
• Media Production
• Travel & Hospitality
• Mental Health Services
• Advocacy
• Health IT
• Waste Management & Recycling
• Youth Empowerment
• Environmental Advocacy
• Financial Empowerment