This Latina-Owned Jewelry Brand Wants to Celebrate the Andean and Peruvian Diaspora

Image Source: Bonny Melendez "You deserve to feel seen," is one of the pillars of Brooklyn Warmi, a U.S.-based Andean lifestyle brand founded by Elena Soledad. Elena Soledad is a self-identifying fat, brown-skinned Andean woman of the Peruvian diaspora, who launched her company in January 2021, in an effort to celebrate and uplift Andean and Peruvian diasporic people. Brooklyn Warmi may have only been created 10 months ago, but Soledad's entrepreneurial spirit stems back to 2010. Finding her des...