EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode Joy Caffrey, Christi Daniels, and Wendy Love Edge visit with Sonia Gutiérrez, founder of New Design School, Easel, and CEO of 501c3 Design and NDS Press. In 2018 she became Fayetteville Arkansas’ first Latina City Council Member.

Her bio:

Sonia Gutiérrez completed a Bachelor of Science in microbiology in 1996, and a Bachelor of Art in graphic design in 1998, from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. While an undergraduate, she studied abroad in Salamanca, Spain and attended the Universidad de Salamanca to study art history and graphic design with a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship. In 2002, she completed a Master of Fine Art in Design and Technology at Parsons School of Design in New York, New York. In 2003, she returned to Fayetteville and founded New Design School in 2006 and Atelier NDS in 2007. In May 2009, she was invited by Fayetteville Mayor Lioneld Jordan to lead the Creative Economy Action Group. Today, she practices graphic design and web design in her roles as founder and CEO of 501c3 Design and NDS Press. She teaches graphic design at Northwest Arkansas Community College. She just recently founded the company Easel, which like an easel, provides a three-legged foundation of sales, operations and finance to bolster a creative’s products or services. Sonia can also be found spinning tracks as DJ SQS. Sonia Gutiérrez became the first Latina elected to the Fayetteville City Council in 2018 and currently serves as a Council Member representative for Ward 1.

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Intro and Outro music by Angela Edge FB: @Angelaedge

Special guest

• To learn more about Sonia Gutierrez visit one of the links below:
  
  
  
  
  
  • Email: ward1_pos1@Fayetteville-AR.gov
    
    
  
  
  • https://www.facebook.com › councilmembersoniag
    
    
  
  
  • https://www.facebook.com/DJSONIAQS
    
    
  
  
  • https://501c3design.com/
    
    
  
  
  • https://easel.company/
    
    
  
  
  • https://twitter.com › MemberSonia
    
    
  
  
  • https://www.fayetteville-ar.gov
    
    
  
  
  • https://speakup.fayetteville-ar.gov/
    
    
  
  
  
  

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CONTRIBUTORS

Joy Caffrey, Christi Denae Daniels, Wendy Love-Edge. Intro and Outro music by Angela Edge FB: @Angelaedge. With editing help from Flint Woods.