Beacon
BEACON is a community-led
campaign to make Washington DC
the most influential and supportive
city for women entrepreneurs in the
United States.

Becoming Beacon

Our goal is to make Washington, DC a model city to demonstrate how investors, companies, mentors and government can work together to ensure women entrepreneurs have an equal opportunity to succeed.

Help Us Build DC's Most Complete Directory of

Women-Owned Businesses

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Sarah Bayot
Founder, Owner, Designer
Kicheko Goods
Meaning “smile/laughter” in Swahili, Kicheko Goods is a socially conscious company that designs distinctive pieces which invest in education. Founded in 2014, Kicheko is an emerging brand made in DC. Concepts for the brand’s small batch collections are inspired by geometry, nature, and travel. Kicheko's aesthetic shares an unrefined boldness, sophisticated earthiness and playful simplicity..
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Katalina Mayorga
CEO
El Camino Travel
El Camino Travel is the answer for millennials craving fresh, immersive, and intentional travel. We curate off-beat experiences for small groups to unique destinations. Our trips come with a creative photographer in tow, so that our travelers can thoroughly enjoy their trip rather than be consumed in capturing it.
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Morgan Davis
Founder
Distinctly Creative
Distinctly Creative is an art collective + company whose mission is to give a diverse, holistic, and collaborative representation of the DC, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) creative scene -- and beyond, through a wide array of social and professional development opportunities.

One of the major focuses is to support and advocate for black creatives because representation matters.
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Find the support for your women-owned business

Resources

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Heather Archer
Chief Training Officer
Training de Jour

Companies are comprised of people who, sooner or later, need new skills, understanding, and knowledge. Today’s training strategies are as varied as the people they seek to train.
Occasionally, your company will find that it has gaps in its training program, either in knowledge or bandwidth.
When that happens, you need a way to quickly fill the gap so that your people don’t lose momentum.

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Amber Watson
Cofounder and CEO
DICE Leadership Group
What started as a yearning ー a plea ー for more thoughtful conversation on diversity and inclusion, has since grown into a collective movement championed by three creative women of color passionate about creating safe spaces where discussions and problem-solving are more inclusive, collaborative, genuinely curious, and successful in landing collective solutions that work.
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Katalina Mayorga
CEO
El Camino Travel
El Camino Travel is the answer for millennials craving fresh, immersive, and intentional travel. We curate off-beat experiences for small groups to unique destinations. Our trips come with a creative photographer in tow, so that our travelers can thoroughly enjoy their trip rather than be consumed in capturing it.
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Events

For Women, By Women, We All Belong Here

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Jul 2018
Grow My Business Course
Financial Empowerment Center at South County

Empowered Women International’s Grow My Business program is a business development course where you will learn new techniques and strategies on finances, budgeting, accounting, marketing, access to capital, and other business skills that will help you continue growing as a businesswoman. With 1-on-1 coaching and expert guests at every class.

Scholarships available.

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3
May 2018
"Grow Your Business" Part 2 of American Dream Business Institute
ZOOM Video Online

Do you have a business idea that you want to JUMP START and just don't know where to start? Are you ready ? Have you taken workshops before and all you received was a whole lot of information. For the last 20 years, I have been CEO of Phoebe Group as a business consultant. I am always asked WHAT'S NEXT? We are your NEXT STEP Coach.

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