Recently The Magis Foundation's Executive Director and Founder, Rebecca Maria A. Rivera, met with Mr. Ryan C. Mack, President and CEO of Optimum Capital Management and The Optimum Institute of Economic Empowerment, to discuss several topics, including financial literacy and mental health, leadership, volunteering, sustainability in social projects and more.
"This was an interesting meeting, we got to exchange many ideas and talk about potential future projects. Not a lot of people are aware that there's a link between behavioral health and finance. When a person or a family go through a financial crisis, it can have some serious emotional side effects, to say the least."-said Ms. Rivera.
Mr. Ryan Mack will be traveling across the country, being funded the the Open Society Institute, empowering the community. As he visited Puerto Rico, he will also travel to New Orleans, Chicago, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Detroit, Newark, Jackson, and LA he will be visiting prisons and hosting town hall meetings facing the important issues of unemployment and mass incarceration rates in the US.
"They both agreed in the positive impact of education and knowledge. They have two different backgrounds, but the same goal: Empowering people through knowledge. All future projects have a lot of potential, and we're all very excited."- said Jean Vidal Font, COO & Executive Board member of The Magis Foundation.
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