Georgia's Latina business owners on the rise, face funding challenges

A woman wearing a red blazer standing in front of a banner that reads Latinas Rise.
Lisa Guadalupe Clarke, Founder and CEO of Latinas Rise poses for a portrait outside of her office in Peachtree City, Ga. (Matthew Pearson/WABE)

In Georgia, Latinas are starting companies at a rapid pace, but these businesses need more support to face the challenges at the intersection of gender and ethnicity.

A robot that looks like a Roomba with multiple shelves, a couple of feet tall, rolls through a Mexican restaurant in Roswell, delivering chips and salsa to customers.

Kettybot, or Ketty for short, is one of the server bots sold by Marianela Nanninga. And she says it tells “jokes.”