Andrea Guendelman
Co-creator of Wallbreakers
Oct 2020Leading force in creating platforms for minority professionals and the tech industry. Through her own experiences as a Harvard-trained corporate lawyer and an entrepreneur, she co-created Wallbreakers – a solution to connect talented students from underrepresented backgrounds (including Latinx, African-American, and other underrepresented minorities) with companies hungry for talent and looking to build inclusive teams.
Hispanic Executive
Feb 2019Andrea Guendelman left a dictatorship, oppressive family expectations, and a successful career in law to launch multiple ventures serving a mission close to her heart: helping young Latinx professionals “break walls” in the tech industry.
Urban Geekz
Jan 2019Andrea Guendelman is best known for spearheading BeVisible, the first and only career platform connecting Latinx professionals.
Since its inception in 2015, BeVisible Latinx has made great strides. The job portal and peer-to-peer platform of 20,000 registered users has created a hyper-engaged online community and collaborative network among the fastest growing demographic in the United States.
Latina Magazine
Apr 2016The transactional and business deftness she gained in her lawyering years are still crucial in her new gig as co-founder and CEO of BeVisible Latina, a social media platform for career-driven millennial Latinas in the U.S. But in this new job, one where she is able to connect Latinas to recruiters and other mujeres in their field, Guendelman is able to use another one of her dearest qualities: creativity.
NBC News
Feb 2016Andrea Guendelman shared with us an anonymous quote from one of their millennial members: "I am drawing on the strength of my community, and am even stronger because of it. Because we are more than a list of accomplishments and professional headshots. We are empowered Latinas ready to take on the world and make ourselves visible.”
Elle
Aug 2016I am Latina. I am Xicana. I am Mexican. And I should be able to identify as all three, not just one. This question of identity and vocabulary is something the Latino community has been grappling with; identity is fluid, but society and language commonly restrict or erase it by narrowing our options down to a checkbox.
NPR
Dec 2016Targeting girls with technology can get thorny. But Andrea Guendelman, creator of Latinos-in-tech social network BeVisible, says one — if not the only — thing that works is mentorship.
Forbes
Jun 2016When Andrea Guendelman doesn’t see something that she and the rest of the world should be seeing, she fixes it. Andrea didn’t see stories in the media about self-made women who came from a world without power or wealth, but with the support of family, teachers and mentors, they found their way to success. So she reached out to me and together we launched the Self-Made Women series here on Forbes.
Huffington
Sep 2016Andrea Guendelman, co-founder of BeVisible, has inspired me to highlight great Latinas and resources for Latinas whenever I can. So when I came across Vivian Nunez I couldn’t be but excited to share her entrepreneur story.
Color Magazine
Jan 2017“It’s a community where you can be yourself in any stage of your career,” says co-founder Andrea Guendelman. “Be yourself even though you’re in a professional setting. It’s about a community becoming empowered.”
El Mercurio
May 2015Andrea Guendelman una chilena que ya lleva tantos años en Estados Unidos que no puede evitar hablar español con palabras intercaladas en inglés- suele rebelarse. Y de esas rebeliones nacen los proyectos que han logrado que las actrices Geena Davis y Maria Bello la apoyen y que Michelle Obama le envíe saludos vía streaming.
Denver Business Journal
Apr 2017I moved from Chile to the United States at the age of 25 to attend Harvard Law School. I moved to the United States because in Chile, women had limited professional opportunities. I arrived here without knowing anyone but I have been able to connect to a powerful network of organizations, people and possibilities that offered life-changing opportunities. I could have gone back to Chile and live a comfortable, but mediocre life, but I chose to stay here to play in the big leagues.
Nely Galán Blog
Oct 2017Andrea Guendelman is the co-founder BeVisible.soy, which is a social media platform powered by Latina millennials who are committed to collaborating and connecting, in order to advance and excel in their careers.
Built in Colorado
May 2016In Colorado, companies and organizations like Women Who Startup, the National Center for Women in IT, MergeLane and Techstars are all working to support and encourage women who start their own tech companies.
Vanza Media
May 2016The stats are even more dire for Latinas. Despite outpacing their male counterparts in college enrollment, Latinas continue to have the lowest representation of all ethnicity groups in tech and make disproportionately less on the dollar than all other cohorts (male or female).
Women 2.0
Apr 2015Andrea Guendelman and Silvia Travesani are the co-founders of BeVisible “La Primera Social Network for US Latinas”.
Latino Rebels
Jan 2016Latinos have made incredible progress in higher education in the last several decades. According to the Center for American Progress, the share of young Latinos enrolled in college doubled from 2009 to 2010, from 13 percent to 27 percent, but despite these gains in higher education, the goalposts are moving again. Just as we enter the white-collar economy, that sector is becoming increasingly insecure, while the growing innovation economy is offering immense rewards to entrepreneurs who are able to take risk. So while we are gaining ground in higher education, Latinos lack the economic and social capital to take advantage of these opportunities.
Techinclusion
Aug 2016BeVisible Latinx, founded by Latinas Andrea Guendelman, Silvia Travesani, and Nicole Castillo, is one such community that uniquely focuses on connecting Latino millennials with employers, all while building the supportive community necessary to ensure that the diverse pipeline of professionals will remain at their jobs.
Tech Inclusion in San Francisco
Oct 2016Andrea is the co-founder and CEO of BeVisible.soy, the professional network fo Latinx . Andrea attended Harvard Law School and after she graduated she worked as the associate director of the Center for the Advancement of Hispanics in Science and Engineering Education
Meet 25 Amazing Women of Color For Your Board
Aug 2019TheBoardlist’s mission is to connect exceptional, diverse talent with global board opportunities with the goal of improving board performance. To date, we've built a community of 14,000 men and women who also believe in the power of diversity, and have served 1,700 companies that have searched theBoardlist for their next director.
MULTICULTURAL CHALLENGE SILICON VALLEY TO BUILD DIVERSE WORKFORCE
May 2016There has long been a conversation in Silicon Valley in regards to not just hiring more diverse candidates but, actually retaining the talent. Recently, BeVisible’s #BeWokeSF, a conference in the Bay Area took place challenging Silicon Valley to do more than just hit certain diversity numbers. Their demand was that companies be intentional about going further than simply inclusion. The suggestions: move toward developing a sense of belonging that leads to retention and productivity.
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“Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.”
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