Maria Salamanca's Email & Phone Number

💼 Past Experience

Since her initial founding of Unshackled Ventures in January 2017, Maria Salamanca has led the firm’s operations and strategy, as well as its disciplinary and academic programs. Salamanca also leads the firm’s development work, which addresses challenges and areas of interest to Unshackled Ventures’ investors and partners.visory, operating and strategy at Unshackled Ventures from January 2017 to June 2017 (6 months). In this position, Salamanca was responsible for the company's legal and financial structures, as well as its proposal and set up of Swing Left's district funds. Salamanca also worked on swing left's diversity initiative, responsible for developing and teaching lessons on the political, legal, and policy aspects of education. Salamanca also worked as part of the Governing Board of LatinxVC, a fundedstartup founded by Latina entrepreneurs. since her initial founding of Unshackled Ventures in January 2017, Maria Salamanca has led the firm’s operations and strategy, as well as its disciplinary and academic programs. Salamanca also leads the firm’s development work, which covers challenges and areas of interest to Unshackled Ventures’ investors and partners.Since her initial founding at Unshackled Ventures in January 2017, Maria Salamanca has led the firm’s operations and strategy, as well as its disciplinary and academic programs. Salamanca also leads the firm’s development work, which addresses challenges and areas of interest to Unshackled Ventures’ investors and partners. Salamanca has worked on a range of issues and projects within Unshackled Ventures, including helping to establish the firm’s investment pipeline, managing the investment process once the decision to invest has been made, and working on swing left's diversity initiative. In addition, Salamanca has also been responsible foralyses and data management for over 10 simultaneous national sites, helped plan EP's signature event for the Analyst Fellowship (National Convening), and helped secure faculty and non-profit sponsorships.Learn more about Maria Salamanca's work experiences here.

🎓 Education

Maria Salamanca has a degree in public policy from Goldman School of Public Policy, where she was a minor in 2011, and a degree in Legal Studies from University of California, Berkeley in 2011. She also has a summer Venture in Management Program at Harvard Business School from 2014 to 2014. Maria Salamanca has been working at The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) since 2014.

💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills

perennial denied tenure at UCLA for "unsatisfactory work" in the areas of gender studies and Chicano studiesMaria Salamanca's experience in administration and fundraisingMaria Salamanca has a background in administration and fundraising. She has worked as a COO at a late-stage venture firm, as a Founding Board Member at LatinxVC, and as an Executive Associate at FWD.us. Maria Salamanca is also a longtime dues-paying member of UCLA'sGender Studies and Chicano Studies departments.In October 2017, Maria Salamanca was denied tenure at UCLA for "unsatisfactory work" in the areas of gender studies and Chicano studies. Salamanca's reduction in productivity and apparent lack of creativity were among the reasons given for her firing. Salamanca has claimed that she was scapegoated by her interlocutors at UCLA, and that her department was feelingmarginalized with no cleardirection on what to do next.Salamanca has asserted that she was not scapegoated, but that her department was feelingmarginalized with no cleardirection on what to do next. She testified that, since she was not given clear directions on her role in the aftermath of the November 2016 election, she "started to feel like this was my department and not just my department's department." Salamanca also testified that she felt like she didn't have support from her superiors "enough to go out and do the [pitch-deck] presentation, market the product further."