Welcome to Latina to Latina, a bustle podcast.

I'm your host, Alicia Menendez.

This episode, I'm talking to Natalia Oberti Nogera.

She's the founder and CEO of Pipeline Angels.

My business aha moment was realizing that society has a gendered perspective on how we change the world.

When women and femme say they're going to change the world, the assumption is that they're going to launch a nonprofit.

Her mission is to change the world to venture capital and to make sure women and non-binary femme, social entrepreneurs,

get the startup funding they deserve.

But her commitment to inclusion goes way beyond the startup world.

For Natalia, who self-identifies as a cis-queer Latina, pronouns she and her,

it is baked into everything she does.

Everything.

Natalia, I wish that we had had the mics running when you walked in this room because you gave the most Natalia entrance that I could have possibly imagined where you walked in and said, I can only be a part of this if you have someone who is black.

And you do this type of stuff all the time.

I've seen you on panels be like, yo, everyone you just had was white on this panel.

And it's such a part of your ethos.

I wonder if you even know you're doing it anymore.

I enjoy the white tier.

So I do.

Well, especially being a non-black Latina, there are tons of issues. You know, like I'm happy to talk about the many marginalized identities I have.

You know, I'm queer. I'm a green card holder. And I'm a woman, right? Like a cis woman.

And so, you know, when it comes to gender, I wish that like the cis guys would call out

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