“I feel as though I’m the strategist and the consultant for the future world that we want to live in for women of color.”
Lauren Maillian is a serial entrepreneur, as well as CEO and board member of digitalundivided, a social organization dedicated to raising VC funding and promoting economic growth for Black and Latinx women entrepreneurs. She serves as an investor and advisor to several startups, including Ephemeral Tattoo, Kroma Wellness, and Ruggable.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Kickoff: “I wake up with natural sunlight, which has been a really big change in my life since we moved to Puerto Rico [from New York]. I get up and read the news while in bed—30 minutes of news and 10 minutes of gossip, because I have to find some balance. And then I have to start my day with working out, because I need to start, not at 100, but at 300. “
