The Little Black Dress (LBD) affair was held at the Bella Luxe Loft on Center Drive, in Los Angeles on Saturday, December 11. The Los Angeles Sentinel’s photojournalist,
CDC Small Business Finance Program Brings Business Banking Opportunities Directly to the People
By Danny J. Bakewell, Jr. Executive Editor
Published April 8, 2021
Robert Villarreal, of CDC Small Business Finance, Elected to Opportunity Finance Network Board
Robert Villarreal is the Chief External Affairs Officer for the Los Angeles Branch of the CDC Small Business and Finance Program. Villareal is unapologetic about his passion for creating financial opportunities to local businesses and people in communities of color. He says that this pandemic has disproportionately affected Black and Brown people and as the organization’s external affairs officer, he and his team are determined to help turn these disproportionate occurrences in to opportunities for local businesses to rebound.