Black & Brown Business Summit underway in West Des Moines
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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.