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The West Des Moines Chamber of Commerce hosted its first Black and Brown Business Summit last month. The organizers hope to make this an annual event where minority-owned businesses can network and learn from others.
Ricky Mathai is a tax professional who came to the United States from Kenya and now owns his own company that helps immigrant-owned businesses with their finances.
He wants to work with Latino business owners to advance his own firm, where he emphasizes empowering and educating other small business owners from racial and ethnic minority populations.
“There s no need…there s no need to be nativist. There s no need to just have corners and cliques and people groups. Let s break down the walls, it’s the 21st century. That s what our fight is today, Mathai said.
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West Des Moines Chamber of Commerce (WDM Chamber) is set to host the first annual Black and Brown Business Summit (the Summit) presented by Principal Financial Group® on April 22 and 23. This two-day conference was created by the WDM Chamber’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee (DEI Committee) with the goal of elevating ethnic minorities and bringing BIPOC businesses together to assist with connection building, programming, promotion, training and to provide resources to help businesses grow and prosper.
“The goal of the
Black & Brown Business Summit is to – Learn, Grow and Thrive,” said Angela Jackson, Chair of the WDM Chamber’s DEI Committee and SVP, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Athene. “Small businesses and businesses of color have been negatively impacted during this global pandemic. The summit aims to provide educational resources, connections to help these business owners grow their business as well as share resources for those who are new en