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Two Amazing Women Setting Out on Their Startup Journey

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And still able to make it out to LA networking events. She’s passionate about near-shore manufacturing in places like Haiti where we can do good and do well. Somehow she was always on a flight up to Seattle or San Francisco. Always meeting her product ship dates. Getting involved with political events and fund raisers.

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Austin’s opportunity to change America’s entrepreneurial narrative

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In fact, according to Austin Inno , the percentage of African Americans in Austin has decreased as the flow of predominately white tech workers has helped fuel the growth of the tech sector and driven up the cost of living. In 1991, ten-year-old Jerry and his family escaped civil war in Haiti and resettled in America as refugees.

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From Haitian Roots to a Silicon Valley Address: How Bianca St.Louis Is Building Her Rep & a Career in Tech

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Additionally all the “successful examples” in my family network were nurses so to my parents that was what success looked like. My parents were immigrants from Haiti who didn’t grow up with access to computers in their homes and consistent electricity so there was only so much they could share with me about tech.