Our Founder

Veronica Aguilar is the founder and chair of Young & Empowered Women. Veronica brings a unique and diverse background in non-profit, mentorship, career development, service, K-12 and higher education.

Prior to launching Young & Empowered Women, Veronica served as a Teach For America corps member teaching 4th grade at ASU Preparatory Academy. She then joined the Teach For America recruitment team and recruited over 350+ college students to teach in low-income communities across the country. Veronica’s passion for serving others, led her to arrive in her current role as Vice President at Teach For America. She works to provide strategy, direction and oversight to recruit a powerful, diverse corps into the organization. Veronica is also a Co-host on Arizona PBS ‘Break It Down’ segment that takes a deep dive into hot topic issues involving race, equity, politics and social impact.

Veronica earned a bachelor’s degree in Business and received her MBA from W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University to learn the business skills needed to be an even stronger advocate to others. As a proud Arizona native, Veronica works tirelessly to improve the community by empowering women leaders as founder to the Young & Empowered Women.

Veronica is a 2020 ATHENA Young Professional finalist for the Greater Phoenix Chamber, Chair of the Teach For America Arizona Alumni Board and a member of the Young Professionals Council at Big Brothers, Big Sisters- Central AZ. Veronica is a recipient of the Blue Cross Blue Shield- Empowering Diversity Scholarship, Arizona Panhellenic Graduate Scholarship, Hispanic Scholarship Fund, ASU Jennifer Hightower Greek Alumnus of the Year and Teach For America National Transformational Change Award.