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Ellison Eyewear the Multi-Billion $ Sunglass Industry

Hearpreneur

Aristotle saw the potential in this $100 billion industry, and teamed up with business partner Ravi Patel. Ellison was easier to pronounce and therefore made the product more accessible to a global audience. To date, our community has built 40 new homes in Nicaragua for families living in slum conditions. Handmade in Greece.

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Multiculturalism: Lorie Valle-Yanez on driving diversity initiatives into business benefits

Transformify

Valle-Yanez believes her diversity training began at birth as a first-generation American, raised in Hawaii – where multiculturalism and inclusion are a way of life – by parents from the Philippines and Nicaragua. Lorie graduated from the University of San Francisco with a B.S. in Organizational Behavior.

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