March 9: The Career(s) of Your Life
I won a New America Media Award for an article I published on Latino.com about a Latina comedienne named Marga Gomez in 2001. I didn’t understand completely WHY at the time, but almost 10 years later, after seeing La Marga perform at the Colony Theater in Miami Beach this past January, I realize it’s because Marga represented a very particular market: the smart, suburban Latina who speaks predominately English. Moreover, Latino.com was a dot.com launched by a Puerto Rican woman by the name of Lavonne Luquis. The power of 3 women, all representing an emerging market. I understand now.

The company went bust in 2001, like every other dot.com without a solid business plan, and this also makes sense to me because that layoff led me to become managing editor of Youth Outlook Magazine, a department of New America Media, between 2001 and 2003. Once Bush declared war, I was fed up, so I left to travel the world and find out who I am and what I should be writing about.

Five years and 7 countries later, I am back in San Francisco, and it just so happens to be at the same time of this new Orwellian political and economic era.

Take the rest of the Biscayne Writers memoir blogging workshop…