Wine & Chisme

Wine: 2019 Aldina Vineyards Pinot Noir 

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Born and raised in Eagle Pass, Texas, Guadalupe García McCall is the award-winning author of several young adult novels, some short stories for adults, and many children’s poems. Guadalupe has received the Prestigious Pura Belpre Award, a Westchester Young Adult Fiction Award, the Tomás Rivera Mexican-American Children’s Book Award, and was a finalist for the William C. Morris Award and the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy, among many other accolades.

She was born in Mexico and moved to Texas as a young girl, keeping close ties with family on both sides of the border. She is a full-time author and abuelita and lives with her husband in South Texas. 

Find her online at ggmccall.com.

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Wine: Maldonado Vineyards 2020 Napa Valley Chardonnay

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Sedale is a certified wine writer, telling stories of wines and winemakers that are not told enough. He is currently a contributor to The Vintner Project and Uncorked and Cultured, focused primarily on BIPOC wines and winemakers. 

A digital marketer by day, Sedale is passionate about his community and making sure their stories are told and highlighted in the industry. 

Sedale holds his WSET Level 2 with Distinction and American Wine Expert. He is currently a CSW candidate.

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Uncorked & Cultured

Wine: RG|NY 2020 Cabernet Franc

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Latina. Fierce. Fighter. A San Diego native with a laugh as big as her hair. These are just a few things we would use to describe our Founder and Host of The Wine & Chisme Podcast, Jessica Yañez. But that’s just the beginning.

Jessica grew up in the suburbs of San Diego and has always had a curiosity for other people and their stories. As far back as she can remember, she would be the first to approach a new student at school, introduce herself, and want to know all about them. Not much has changed as her curiosity has lent itself well to learning more about the world around her. 

She specifically created The Wine & Chisme Podcast to amplify voices across communities of color and share their stories on career, love, life and more. All while sipping on a glass of wine.

She launched the VERY FIRST directory of Latiné owned wine brands based in the United States and has since expanded into hosting virtual wine tastings that specifically focus on these vintner. She believes that people need to know that our community not only works the land, but owns the brands.

Wine: 2021 Seis Soles White Blend 

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Patty and Iris are both career women with more than 15 years of experience in the events and tech industry. Festively was built to make it easier for busy moms to discover all the beautiful and custom elements they need to make their celebrations memorable.

Patty is an LA native and graduate of UC Santa Barbara with a BA in environmental studies and a background in tech. She is a Dodger fan for life, wife, and proud mom of two boys and step-mom of a wonderful daughter. She loves making custom cocktails and can be found petting cats and dogs everywhere she goes.

Iris is from Louisiana and proud of her family ties. She is a graduate of Cal State Dominguez Hills with a BA in communications. She's planned events for family, friends and fortune 200 companies. She's a mom of two boys, wife and loves exploring new recipes while dancing and singing as she cooks.

Website: https://festively.com/

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Wine: Encanto Wines 2017 Sauvignon Blanc

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Jasmine Ruiz is a Comedian, Writer, and Performer born and raised in the Bronx, educated at Barnard College of Columbia University. She creates content mostly focused on the NYC experience and being Puerto Rican. She has an episodic series Dr. G The Gangsta Therapist and produces a variety of other skits under The Jasmine Show. She cohosts The Rick H. Show, a weekly comedic podcast featuring guests from different industries. 

Jasmine is currently writing her own show that focuses on the plight of those who are the first in their family to break cycles and achieve socioeconomic mobility.

Website https://jasmine.nyc/

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Wine: Seis Soles White Blend, 2020

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Natalia Molina is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Her research explores the intertwined histories of race, place, gender, culture, and citizenship. She is the author of the award-winning books, How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts and Fit to Be Citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1940. 

Her most recent book is A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community, on immigrant workers as placemakers —including her grandmother—who nurtured and fed the community through the restaurants they established, which served as urban anchors. She co-edited Relational Formations of Race: Theory, Method and Practice, and is now at work on a new book, The Silent Hands that Shaped the Huntington: A History of Its Mexican Workers. In addition to publishing widely in scholarly journals, she has also written for the LA Times, Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, and more. Professor Molina is a 2020 MacArthur Fellow.

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Wine: Encanto Vineyards, 2016 Pinot Noir, Carneros Valley 

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Claudia is an artist, writer, philanthropist, abundance coach, mentor, mother, and wife. During her career as a journalist, she has worked for magazines and television in South America and the US, touching subjects from parenting, forgiveness, and growth to political issues.

She started her career on television at 17 years old as an actor, appearing in one the most popular Telenovelas (Soap-opera) called Carmin, airing in over 37 counties as well as mini-series and important advertising campaigns in South America, like Levi's.

Soon after, she moved to behind the camera and, at 21, became one of the youngest producers in her country, where she wrote a manual that was later used to train other young producers.

Born in Peru, she comes from a culture of taboos and beliefs that had not always empowered her to become what she believed was her calling. In the process of self-discovering, she fell in love with herself again and found her passion for helping others.

She is involved in several charities and have a soft spot for immigrant children. She received the Community Ambassador Award in 2017-2018 from the UNLV Boyd School of Law and The kid's Court Program and in 2020 she received the Volunteer of the Year Award from the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation among other recognitions for her involvement in many causes. she is in the College Board of Education, and her Kids' Journal “I AM- My gratitude Journal” is being used in some Magnet schools in Nevada.

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Website: www.brighterdaysbook.com

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We also talk to El Coraloense Restaurant, Mike Cano with Latinx Wines, Christina Sanchez, V.P. of Community Engagement for AltaMed. 

Wine: 2021 Beaujolais Nouveau Georges Duboeuf

BIO:

Yasmín Ramirez is a 2021 Martha's Institute of Creative Writing Author Fellow as well as a 2020 recipient of the Woody and Gayle Hunt-Aspen Institute Fellowship Award. Her fiction/CNF works have appeared in Cream City Review and Huizache among others.

She is an Assistant Professor of English, Creative Writing, and Chicanx Literature at El Paso Community College. She stays active in the Borderplex arts community and serves on the advisory board of BorderSenses, a literary non-profit. Her memoir ¡Ándale, Prieta!, by Lee and Low Books, is now available.

Website: https://www.yasminramirez.com/

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Wine: 2017 El Viajero Cabernet Sauvignon by Voces Cellars 

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ASTRID - Astrid Ferguson is a certified life and business coach, author and poet specializing in helping people navigate through unclear transitions by abolishing internal blocks so they can take control of their work/life balance and get back to having fun. She has written two anthologies Molt and The Serpents Rattle and has a podcast with her sister Alexandra Hodge called Call Your Sister Podcast. 

ALEX - Alexandra Hodge is a single mom working in the non-profit sector. Together they established a podcast that centers conversations among related and unrelated sisters on topics of motherhood, sisterhood, Latinidad, feminism and sexuality. Their desire is to create a community where women uplift and support each other in all facets of womanhood.