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Carmen GreenMay 14th, 2024

Community Business Academy Instructor Tatiana Vivas Uses Language As a Tool to Empower Others

Determination is probably the best adjective to describe Tatiana Vivas, owner of Sava Group, a translation, interpretation, and empowerment business that she opened in 2019. Vivas’s belief was so strong in herself, that she left her job in a law firm and struck out on her own. “I came to Rising Tide Capital because even though I have a bachelor’s degree, I didn’t know anything about how to run a business.” Vivas

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adminSeptember 21st, 2023

Yeannette Garcia, Resilience Instructor and Entrepreneur Success Senior Coordinator, Rising Tide Capital

You have such an interesting background, personally and professionally. Share a bit about yourself. I came to the U.S. almost 30 years ago from the Dominican Republic to have access to resources I didn’t have there. My family has always been involved in the community – our neighborhood and church – so I wanted to do the same after coming to this country as an immigrant. For 25 years, I worked in

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Rising Tide CapitalFebruary 1st, 2023

Meet Dr. Latisha Forster Scott, Founder of Fusion Fit & Well

Community Business Academy graduate Latisha Forster Scott, PhD, is the founder of Fusion Fit & Well which helps people create the healthy habits and lifestyles they want by developing customized wellness and fitness plans through in-person and virtual coaching. Dr. Forster Scott’s focus includes women of color, a demographic whose health issues are often deprioritized. She also teaches chair fitness for those whose needs are not met by standard gyms, in addition

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Ambrosia BrodyFebruary 1st, 2023

Meet Takeerah Jones, Owner of Busy Bees Learning Center

Takeerah Jones admits she didn’t set out to be an entrepreneur. “I had no idea I was going to own a business,” says the Bloomfield resident whose company serves schools, libraries, and educational programs throughout Essex County. The transition from preschool teacher to managing a preschool for four years to small business owner has been a learning experience for Jones. In 2016, Jones established Busy Bees Learning Center as a sole proprietor

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Rising Tide CapitalMay 19th, 2021

Rising Tide Profile: Janie Arguedas, Marketing and Digital Communications Associate

It’s no accident that an artist like Janie Arguedas finds herself at Rising Tide Capital: with fabric as her primary medium, Janie hand-deconstructs and recontextualizes knit fabric, celebrating the fundamental ways in which it exists, valuing each thread, tending to areas that need mending and creating greater coherence through a diversity of contributions to the whole. “I feel a deep sense of purpose being in Jersey City and working with Rising Tide

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