Beatriz Olvera Stotzer is CEO of NEWCapital, a real estate development firm in Los Angeles. Ms. Stotzer is a nationally recognized business leader and family advocate who has devoted her life to creating economic and business solutions for poor families. Her extensive business and economic development work in the Los Angeles region has been invaluable to setting the vision for several organizations as well as helping to establish long-lasting economic and business opportunities for which she has received national and local recognition.

Ms. Stotzer currently serves on several Boards and is a founding Board member of several organizations such as Inner City Arts, HOPE, Women’s Law Center and New Economics for Women (NEW) through which she leveraged an initial $97,000 United Way grant into a successful $260 million in investment for NEW. She previously served as Chair of the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles and had the honor of serving on President Bill Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development.