40 under 40: Jasmine Jina Ortiz
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40 Under Forty winners (from left) Julie Holstrom, Jasmine Jina Ortiz, Paul Medeiros and D. Andrew McBeth
Since joining Keller Williams three years ago, Ortiz has increased the numbers of Latinos purchasing residential and commercial properties and drove participation in first-time homebuyer and U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development programs. She conducts workshops in community venues.
Ortiz teaches English writing and literature courses at Quinsigamond Community College and is the co-editor of the anthology “All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color.” She received Worcester Arts Council’s Artists Fellowship in 2006.
What is your most significant professional goal? To build the top multilingual real estate team in Central Mass.
What would you like to go back and tell your 10-year-old self? Never take a person or a second chance for granted.
I prepare for the unexpected by... being resilient and having other plans in place.
Who is the fictional character you are most like? Janie Crawford, from Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God” – her strength is in her ability to be dignified in all circumstances, and she challenges the conventions of who should love whom.
Meet the other 40 Under Forty winners
Matthew Abraham - Tighe & Bond Inc. in Worcester
Kola A. Akindele - UMass Medical School in Worcester
William E. Aubuchon, IV - Aubuchon Hardware in Westminster
Amanda Marie Baer - Mirick O'Connell in Westborough
Elizabeth Belliveau - Enlightened Interventions & Union Street Yoga in Worcester
Joe Bush - Worcester CleanTech Incubator
Nicholas J. Carbone - Boyle & Carbone, P.C. in Fitchburg
Christof Chartier - C.M. Chartier Contracting in Templeton
Rob Cleary - ClearCom IT Solutions Inc. in Leicester
Emily DeGray - Residential Mortgage Services in Sturbridge & Worcester
Alexander Dunn - Skyscope in Worcester
Peter Dunn - Worcester Executive Office of Economic Development
Amadeus Finlay - BlueHive Inc. in Worcester
Tiffany Gallo - Cutler Associates, Inc. in Worcester
Carly A. Gould - Reliant Medical Group in Worcester
Hawley Harrigan - Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Mass/MetroWest in Worcester
Michael Herbert - Town of Ashland
Julie Holstrom - Worcester Business Development Corp.
Miriam Hyder - Ed Hyder's Mediterranean Marketplace in Worcester
Kham Inthirath - Envision Digital Group in Worcester
Isabelle Jenkins - College of the Holy Cross in Worcester
Renee King - The Queen's Cup in Millbury
Oriola Koci - Livia's Dish & Altea's Brunch in Worcester
Ryan Leary - Running Start Coworking in Worcester
D. Andrew McBeth - Green Leaf Construction in Leominster
Paul Medeiros - Easter Seals Massachusetts in Worcester
Bob Miller - Tegra Medical in Franklin
Jonathan Miller - YOU, Inc. in Worcester
Amanda Misilo - Commerce Bank in Worcester
Amy Peterson - DCU Center in Worcester
Katherine Pittinger - Worcester Fitness
Douglas T. Radigan - Bowditch & Dewey, LLP in Worcester
Caitlin Sargent Lubelczyk - Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester
Dr. Brian Sullivan, MD - Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center in Worcester
Evis Wilmes Terpollari - Veterans Inc. in Worcester
Brian Treitman - B.T.'s Smokehouse in Sturbridge
James A. Valis - Blackstone Valley Wealth Management in Hopkinton
Stephanie Weagle - Corero Network Security in Hudson
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