Corina’s passion for helping people is reflected in all her efforts and is fueled by the desire to support those in need. She supports the local community as a small business owner and non-profit founder of BmoreLatina. Her organization was inspired by helping disadvantaged women and children build economic independence and empowerment through understanding how to navigate the paths to success achieved by upward mobility of the American Dream through entrepreneurship.

Her business serves the construction industry and the developing real estate economy in Baltimore. As a compassionate business owner, she understands the success of building a business is achieved by demonstrating leadership and support for the community. In 2016, she won the title “Woman of the Year” for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society in a victorious fundraising effort to support baby Brielle and her grandfather’s legacy. She is also the Vice Chairman of the Maryland Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

After working corporate sales in Washington D.C., Ms. Morga settled back in Baltimore and started C.R. Services as a commercial/residential cleaning company knew in the community. Her company has expanded into offering customized construction services, labor and workforce services in the and energy segment. C.R. Services is a registered WMBE with the City of Baltimore/MDOT. She currently has contracts of Baltimore and has completed work on projects Remington Row, Parkway Theatre, Annie E. Casey, Union Brewery, City Garage (Port Covington’s new headquarters), 21st Century Schools – Robert Poole School, Plan-it, OpenWorks, City Arts II, Barclay Apartments, and Hollins Ferry to name a few.

She received her undergraduate degree from Towson University 2006. Currently, she is a Entrepreneurship MBA graduate student at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School which supports her entrepreneurial spirit and credo concept of “doing business with humanity in mind.”

When he was a teenager, Juan Barbaran thought he would become a soccer player.

Juan, who grew up in Lima, Peru, wanted to follow in the footsteps of his father, a professional soccer player in the 1970s. But after breaking his left leg and foot in a collision with another player on the field, he had to shift his sights to something else.

At 21, Juan moved to New Jersey with $200 and a determination to “follow the American dream.”

“I didn’t speak the language, I didn’t have experience, so I started from the very bottom,” he recalled.

He worked in construction for a few months before coming to Baltimore, where he found jobs as a dishwasher and a waiter. Meanwhile, he enrolled in English courses at Baltimore City Community College to chip away at the language barrier.

Barbaran steadily worked his way up, earning a degree in business from the University of Baltimore and scoring a job selling advertisements for the Baltimore Sun Media Group. He held a variety of sales jobs before joining Paychex, a national company that offers payroll processing and other human resources services to small and midsize businesses.

At Paychex, Juan was a liaison to Spanish-speaking business owners. He’s also very involved in the local business community as vice chair of the Maryland Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

His advice for entrepreneurs who are struggling: stay positive.

“When you struggle, those are opportunities for you to be relentless and keep up with the fight,” he said. “When I was a waiter, some weeks I didn’t make a lot of money and I was worried about my rent and my books and my food. But somehow, [by] staying positive, giving it 100 percent, it worked out.”