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Angela Neira Buitrago of 'Life Asset' to be featured guest at 2:30 p.m. TODAY, Friday, Oct. 28, on Montgomery Council's Radio America show

For Immediate Release: Friday, October 28, 2016

Angela Neira Buitrago of ‘Life Asset’

to be featured guest on

‘Tuned In’ Radio America show

At 2:30 p.m. TODAY, Friday, Oct. 28,

on WACA 1540 AM, she will talk about

how the non-profit tries to help entrepreneurs

through guidance, advice and micro-loans

 

ROCKVILLE, Md., October 28, 2016—Angela Neira Buitrago, a senior loan officer from the non-profit Life Asset that seeks to help entrepreneurs get their businesses started, will be the featured guest at 2:30 p.m. TODAY, Friday, Oct. 28, on En Sintonía con el Concejo del Condado de Montgomery (Tuned In with the Montgomery County Council), a weekly show on Radio America (WACA 1540 AM). Among the topics she will address are the availability of guidance and micro-loans for people who might have a difficult time accessing those things through traditional channels.

 

Montgomery County Council Vice President Roger Berliner, who was the chief sponsor of legislation that created the County position of “small business navigator,” has talked about making micro-loans available to budding business owners.

 

Services provided by Life Asset include micro-loans, financial and business training, networking opportunities, the chance to join a business incubator of shared services and help in finding office/retail space.

 

Ms. Buitrago Neira joined Life Asset in 2015 after serving as the operations manager at the Ana G. Mendez University System in Wheaton. She previously worked for more than four years at the Latino Economic Development Center as its senior small business manager and its microfinance loan portfolio manager.

 

Ms. Buitrago Neira has a master’s degree in project management from American Intercontinental University in Washington, D.C., and a degree in business administration from Externado de Colombia University in Bogota, Colombia. She was a panelist for the 2016 Hispanic Heritage Month commemoration organized by County Councilmember Nancy Navarro.

 

The Montgomery County Council and Radio America have entered into a partnership that provides the Latino community with key information on issues and programs. The partnership also provides a forum for residents to express views and ask questions. The partnership includes the weekly one- hour show each Friday on the Washington Region’s most popular Spanish language station. The show is hosted by Andrea Sarralde.

 

Each week, the show features guests talking about important issues before the Council and occasionally the show provides information about programs offered by the County to help residents.

 

In addition to the radio broadcast, the show can be heard via the Internet at: http://radioamerica.net/en-vivo/ . Video links with a summary of the show are available each week at the County Council's newly-redesigned, mobile friendly web site at:  www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council .

 

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Release ID: 16-338
Media Contact: Neil Greenberger 240-777-7939, Delphine Harriston 240-777-7931