Lunch with LT Leaders: Rosalinda Mendoza, LT'16, and Elizabeth Mendoza, LT'17
Interested in learning about community-centered leadership and entrepreneurship? Join us to talk with Rosalinda Mendoza, LT’16, and Elizabeth Mendoza, LT’17, two Latina entrepreneurs with Mexican roots who have started Mocel, an artisanal mezcal company. Learn how their new business connects community and culture, relies on trust, challenges perceptions, and builds connections.
Our Lunch with LT Leaders series highlights inspiring LT alumni who are using their leadership to influence positive change in our region and beyond. Through Zoom, featured leaders share their leadership journeys and then open the conversation for questions. Each session takes place from 12:00-1:00 p.m. Following the program, there is an optional 30-minute facilitated discussion to debrief and connect with other alumni. So, grab your lunch and join us! You must register ahead of time to receive the Zoom link.
Note: To help our speaker(s) and participants have candid and open dialogues, we will NOT record this alumni event.
EVENT DETAILS:
When: September 29, 2022
Program: 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Post-Program Debrief (Optional): 1:00-1:30 p.m.Where: Zoom (We will send you the link the day before the event.)
Who: LT alumni, LT’23 class members, Honorary LT, and guests
Cost: $0 - $30
Optional Pre-Reading: Maestra of Mezcal
Speaker Bios
Rosalinda Mendoza, LT’16, is CEO and Co-Founder of Mocel Mezcal, an e-commerce company that delivers ultra-premium artisanal mezcales to your home to create a shared tasting experience. Rosalinda was born and raised in rural Washington to farmworker immigrants from Michoacán, Mexico. Between growing up in the farmlands of Washington State and visiting her grandparents in rural Michoacán, she understood and appreciated the hard work of cultivating and making real food and beverages. Rosalinda and her sister co-founded Mocel Mezcal, which crafts mezcales from Michoacán using 400-year-old artisanal methods with two ingredients – agave and water.
Prior to venturing into entrepreneurship, Rosalinda held roles in management and marketing for various organizations including IBM, Starbucks and the Washington State Farmworker Housing Trust, a non-profit working to improve housing conditions for families in rural Washington.
Rosalinda also continues to play an active role as mentor in FOSTERing MBA Access, a program she co-founded as an MBA student to recruit students of color and women into UW’s highly ranked MBA program. Rosalinda has an MBA from the University of Washington and a B.A. in Economics from Whitman College. Rosalinda and her boot-wearing, bull-riding husband enjoy spending time in the Yakima Valley, hanging out at rodeos with family and expanding their mezcal collection.
Elizabeth Mendoza, LT’17, is a technology and privacy attorney who advises companies on product launch issues relating to privacy, data security, technology licensing, Internet of Things (IoT), and e-commerce. Elizabeth is also the co-founder of Mocel Mezcal, alongside her sister, which crafts mezcales from Michoacán using 400-year-old artisanal methods.
Elizabeth was the 2017 AI/Machine Learning Fellow at Perkins Coie. During her fellowship, Elizabeth researched the emerging legal issues arising from the proliferation of AI and Machine Learning products, including issues related to privacy, automated decision making, algorithmic discrimination, algorithmic collusion and machine learning product liability.
A graduate of Columbia Law School, Elizabeth received her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College. After law school, she clerked for the Hon. Richard C. Tallman on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Elizabeth was a 2016 Fellow of the Hispanic National Bar Association/Microsoft IP Law Institute, where she mentored Latino law students interested in intellectual property law.