Join us for a conversation about financial literacy and how you can live a more comfortable, balanced, and meaningful life.
According to the Canadian Women Association, women in Canada earned an average of 75 cents for every dollar earned by men in 2016. Moreover, the Conference Board of Canada states that university-educated Canadian-born members of a visible minority earn, on average, 87.4 cents for every dollar earned by their Caucasian peers. Racialized women have to take control of their financial situation in order to live comfortably. The current world economic situation due to the pandemic has taught us how to be prepared for unexpected situations as such.
Come learn more about the importance of financial literacy in your daily life and how you can take ownership of your financial education with the financial advisor Yamila Franco & Darron Hastick.
Yamila was born and raised in the Dominican Republic. As a proud Afro-Indigenous womxn, she is the co-founder and Chief Financial Officer of Nyoka Design Labs, a clean technology social enterprise designing eco-friendly & innovative products by bringing traditional, Indigenous knowledge to solve today's environmental challenges. Yamila started her journey to heal her relationship with money while she was in university and upon realizing that many of her peers were struggling with debt and lack of understanding of the financial system like she was. This resulted in her becoming a licensed financial professional in 2018, which led her to dive into financial education as a way to empower communities and a pathway towards freedom and entrepreneurship. Since then, Yamila has been a strong advocate for building resilient communities for financial inclusion of diverse groups, especially in the BIPOC community. Earlier this year Yamila was awarded the REP Youth Award by HERE in Canada due to her leadership, advocacy, and anti-racism work in the community and was a finalist for the @eo_gsea Global Student Entrepreneurship Awards Nationals. Yamila recently became the co-founder of AfroHub Market, which focuses on supporting the global community of entrepreneurs of African Descent by building and scaling their business with a focus on sustainability. "My goal is to raise more leaders in the community so we can break cycles of intergenerational poverty, create more opportunities for leadership & building sustainability at different levels of community and business"
Darron Hastick moved to Vancouver in 1995 from and Island in the Caribbean called Trinidad. Without much in the way of formal education, Darron landed his fist job as a Janitor. He worked for many years pay cheque to pay cheque, and it wasn’t until he began investing his money little by little in the stock market, and working on his credit that his money began to multiply. Darron felt he needed to do more so he started learning about real estate which lead to him acquiring a small real estate portfolio. Today, with the combination of stocks, real estate and small businesses, he continues to educate himself and has a passion for helping people understand investing and learning to make their money work for them.
This event is made possible thanks to funding from the Canadian Red Cross and the Government of Canada.
November 30, 7 PM PST / Zoom
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81244869604
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We acknowledge that this event is hosted from the traditional territory of the Lekwungen people, currently and specifically the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations.