Trans* Entrepreneur Spotlight
November is Transgender Awareness Month!
Join us on November 5th as we highlight the success of 2 phenomenal trans* business owners during the Chamber’s first Trans* Entrepreneur Spotlight! This evening will include pre-event networking, a 45 second hot seat to highlight your business, and a fireside chat including audience Q&A with trans* business owners E Jaye Johnson of The Hot Seat Group & Madin Lopez of Project Q. This will be great opportunity to learn about the experiences of being a trans* business owner and meet other trans/non-binary/gnc business owners and entrepreneurs.
Refreshments will be provided. All LGBTQ+ welcome to attend.
Tuesday, November 5th
Doors open at 6:30pm
Plummer Park Community Room #5
7377 Santa Monica Blvd
West Hollywood, CA 90046
FREE TO ALL
Speaker bios:
Dr. E. Jaye Johnson, has a Doctorate in Business Administration, Marketing. He also has a Masters of Fine Art, Cinematography. He uses his passion for both business and art to build out of the box business.
Jaye has launched, grown and sold 13 companies and has been a part of 52 ventures in several sectors in either a partner or investor capacity resulting in $520 million in assets. He is passionate and committed to growing startups, cause driven corporations.
Jaye has consulted and coached for University of Southern California Marshall Business School & Keck Medical School, University of California Los Angeles Human Services Department, Chemo Buddies For Life, City of Los Angeles Human Rights Commission, Alphabet, County of Los Angeles Board of Advisors, City Of West Hollywood, Landmark Education, Warner Brothers Entertainment Group, Lionsgate Films, NBC Universal and dozens of additional celebrity influencers, companies and startups.
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Madin Lopez founded ProjectQ in 2012 because they wanted to focus on creating a generation of homeless queer youth that love themselves. The first ever event for ProjectQ was held at the QPOC conference at CSUN in 2012. In 2013, they began volunteering at the LA LGBT youth shelter on Highland, giving haircuts to about 30 homeless youth a month. They have since purchased a vintage Airstream, converted it into a mobile self-esteem building hair salon, (named the “Hairstream”) and they have driven it across the United States providing haircuts to homeless LGBTQIA+ youth at various organizations. In 2018 they opened the ProjectQ Salon & Community Center is the Chinatown area of Los Angeles, California. Where they now provide free gender affirming haircuts and mentorship workshops to over 700 LGBTQIA+ youth annually.
The LAGLCC Inclusion Task Force is dedicated to increasing the visibility of diversity within our LGBTQ* business community through education, networking and direct engagement.
Date and Time
Tuesday Nov 5, 2019
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM PST
Location
Plummer Park Community Room #5
7377 Santa Monica Blvd
West Hollywood, CA 90046
