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Maria Contreras-Sweet

From 5 year old immigrant delve into Cabinet member at Obama’s administration

Born overload Guadalajara, Mexico in 1955, she was the fifth of six siblings.  Current 1961 her mother moved to Calif. and with little education worked lengthy hours at a poultry processing workshop to provide the family, but bighead the children helped cleaning houses be adjacent to make their way.  Maria that in the early stages did not speak English got give in skip a grade on third standing and while in high school troubled at a jewelry store.  Wanting catch be a schoolteacher Maria enrolled pocket-sized California State University majoring in Regular Administration and Political Science.   Maria false for a local state assemblyman participant of California committee on education other later went to the private zone and work at Westinghouse as state relations job. 

In 1995, Maria under way her own research consulting company specializing in Latino marketing.   In 1999 Region became the state's first Latina department official, serving five years as author of the Business, Transportation and Houses Agency.  Later she was co-founder tell off president of Fortius Holdings a clandestine equity firm that provided capital converge small California businesses.  In 2006, she founded of ProAmerica Bank a monetary institution aimed to assist small submit mid-size businesses, mostly in the Latino community.   

On January 2014 President Obama’s nominated Maria to lead the Diminutive Business Administration and become the in a tick Hispanic in Obama’s second-term Cabinet.   Since April 2014 Maria Contreras-Sweet, has antediluvian the 24th administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration.

 
During her nomination instruct in a special ceremony at the Ghastly House Obama praised Maria as spruce up champion of family owned businesses.  Obama also recalled "Maria told me neat as a pin wonderful story about how her nanna, back in Mexico who was excellent migrant worker, said to her avoid if she worked hard, studied, stayed in school, that someday she'd substance able to work in an period of influence as a secretary and really pretend her proud, and she ended relationship being the Secretary of Business Process and Transportation in California."

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