LOS ANGELES, CA — October 15, 2024 — (Notice Newswire) — Hispanic Lifestyle is pleased to announce that Angela Sustaita-Ruiz, Co-Founder and Chairman of Brilla Media Ventures, will be hosting Hispanic Lifestyle’s “Connecting Latinas of Influence” event. announced that he will be recognized for his national leadership in the Latino community. , October 23, at Ft. Lauderdale.
Angela has worked in digital media, marketing, and public relations for 25 years, leading award-winning U.S. Hispanic and multicultural programs. Prior to joining Brilla Media, she co-founded Latina Mom Bloggers (later renamed DiMe Media), the first Latina influencer network, with Hispanicize Media Group in 2009. She has led hundreds of influencer and community engagement marketing campaigns for major brands including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Ad Council, Disney, Unilever, P&G, Netflix, and HBO. In 2019, she sold the majority of Hispanish to John Leguizamo’s NGL Collective, and in 2022, Leguizamo and Angela became part of the collective that sold all of NGL to Go Digital/MiTu.
Angela’s recent honors include receiving the 2023 Hispanic Heritage Entrepreneur of the Year Award by the Latin American Business Association, being a semi-finalist for Pharrell Williams’ Black Ambition Award, and being named to the CDC’s How Right Now. ” including winning the 2021 Hermes Creative Award for COVID-19. Mental health response campaign. Angela was selected as a 2021 finalist for Altisimo Live’s PRWeek Multicultural Marketing Campaign of the Year for Farmworker Relief. He is also a past recipient of the Hispanic Public Relations Association (HPRA) Professional of the Year Award.
A proud third-generation Mexican-American and Texan, Angela comes from a family of immigrant farm workers, military veterans, entrepreneurs, and community activists. She holds a BA in Latin American Studies from Baylor University and currently resides in Miami, Florida.
Below is a list of other 2024 Latinx Influencer Florida Award winners.
Dr. Adis M. Vila, Chief Experience Officer, Global – Vila & Associates Annacristina Brandon, Senior Manager, International Asset Structuring and Global Family Offices – Scotiabank. ALPFA Miami Chapter Co-President Arlyn Brosh, Actress, Entrepreneur, Producer Carolina Valderrama, Manager of Affordable Lending and Housing Assistance, AMP, Dr. Freddie Maccharley Ferrer, CEO and Founder – Cancer Tamer Foundation, Empowerment Speaker and Breast Cancer Awareness Advocate Dr. Luisa Montoya, CEO – Diversity Matters Mary Sol (Atienza) Gonzalez, CEO – Hispanic Entrepreneur Initiative Sylvia Fresneda, Mortgage Consultant – Wells Fargo Mortgage Wendy Preciado, Founder & CEO – CM & D National Construction LLC
About the Hispanic lifestyle
Hispanic Lifestyle is a leading master brand in digital media and event production, connecting business owners, professionals and community leaders through engaging content and events. Trusted by top brands, we customize messages to reach our valued consumers and have won multiple awards and recognition.
Hispanic Lifestyle, an independently produced television show, focuses on the accomplishments of Latinx leaders, organizations and businesses with segments on health, travel, food and entertainment. It aired on PBS and independent stations in California, Arizona, Kansas City, Oklahoma, and Texas.
Hispanic Lifestyle is certified as a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) by the California Public Utilities Commission (MBE# 14110125) and as a Small Business Enterprise (SBE) by the State of California (SBE# 1791437).
About Brilla Media Ventures
Brilla Media Ventures provides engaging cultural content to multicultural marketers through its owned and operated platforms, Nuestro Stories, Nuestro Studios, and Brilla Latina. Services also include programmatic advertising technology services for scalable media distribution, influencer marketing, creative studio services, and brand activation.
The company is led by Angela Sustaita Ruiz and Manuel Ruiz Barrera, creators of Hispanicize, and is a leading company in the Hispanic media, social and influencer marketing industry, the Latinx press release wire industry, and the Hispanic print media company. pioneered the first online network.
