by Jasmine Zapata, MD Nearly 500 guests, sponsors and vendors attended the 7th Annual Black Women’s Wellness Day this past Saturday September 19, 2015 at the Alliant Energy Center. This sold-out event was hosted by the Foundation for Black Women’s Wellness, a Wisconsin based non-profit organization committed to informing, inspiring and empowering Black women and […]
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An Interview with Certified Public Accountant Shawana Jackson
by Jasmine Zapata, MD Hello! Welcome to this week’s edition of Brown Girl Green Money. We are a social network of women of color working to achieve financial freedom and inspire each other along the way. Thanks for joining us again this week! This month, we have been exploring the pros and cons of home […]
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Buying vs. Renting
by Jasmine Zapata, MD Welcome to this week’s issue of Brown Girl Green Money. We are a collective of women of color working to reach financial freedom and inspire each other along the way. Thanks so much for joining us again this week. Today, I want to introduce a new series that BGGM will be […]
Marriage and Money (Part 2)
by Jasmine Zapata, MD Welcome back to Brown Girl Green Money! Last week I shared a few of my personal reflections on the the topic of marriage and money. A brief recap: I met my husband when I was 16 years old. We were high school sweethearts and then after three years we decided to […]
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Marriage and Money (Part 1)
by Jasmine Zapata, MD Welcome back to Brown Girl Green Money! As a follow up to the awesome BGGM article Angie recently wrote entitled “In Consideration of My Future Spouse,” I thought I’d share a few of my personal reflections on this topic and a few lessons I’ve learned over the years regarding marriage and […]
Black Women’s Wellness Day: Eliminating Health Disparities and Creating a New Vision
By Jasmine Zapata, MD July 31, 2015 Women listen to keynote speaker Queen Afua at last year’s Black Women’s Wellness Day. Photo by Hedi Rudd “[We] have decided that our lives and our wellbeing are too precious to neglect. We’re no longer willing to be the subject of disparity reports, to bury our mothers and […]
Brown Girl, Green Money: College Scholarship Success
By Jasmine Zapata July 17, 2015 Jasmine Zapata Last week, I had the great honor of talking to a group of minority middle and high school students about preparing for college. It was awesome to see the excitement and passion in their eyes when talking about their future career goals and […]
Brown Girl Green Money: Talking to Young Kids About Money & Entrepreneurship
By Jasmine Zapata, MD June 19, 2015 A few days ago, while driving my 6-year-old son home from school, he informed me that in addition to being a real estate investor and a policeman, he was going to be an inventor. He went on to describe how he was going to […]
Brown Girl Green Money: Question Corner
By Jasmine Zapata and Angela Fitzgerald May 22, 2015 Jasmine Zapata and Angela Fitzgerald Earlier this month, a reader from our Facebook page submitted this question. We thought we’d share our ideas and then open it up to the BGGM community for additional thoughts on the topic. Here it is: […]
Brown Girl Green Money: An Interview with Entrepreneur Crystal Adell
By Jasmine Zapata, M.D. May 1, 2015 Jasmine Zapata, M.D. This week, I had the awesome privilege of interviewing an amazing African American female entrepreneur who owns a national workout company and brand: Ms. Crystal Adell, owner of Black Women DO Workout, LLC. She recently moved to Madison and […]