Celia is also the co-owner of South LA Cafe a community coffee shop and cultural center, designed to build community through coffee, culture, and connection. She is also the co-owner of South LA Market which was created in a food justice effort to provide fresh, healthy, and affordable food to her South Central LA community. She is also the Co-CEO of the South LA Cafe Community Foundation, the 501c3 non-profit affiliate of South LA Cafe.Celia Ward-Wallace is a leading Business Coach and Consultant for Social Enterprises creating a business with an impact through her firm, The Ward-Wallace Group. She is an internationally recognized Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, and Leadership Expert. She leads her clients to start, launch, and grow purpose-driven businesses and become thought leaders through entrepreneurship, coaching, speaking, writing, community building, and activism.Celia is also an activist and often speaks about white privilege and supremacy. The daughter of lifelong political activists, Celia specialized in the study of intergroup conflict and prejudice as well as civil and women’s rights while at UCLA and the People’s College of Law. Celia lives in South Central Los Angeles and is an ally to Black Lives Matter and other grassroots community organizations dedicated to equality and justice. Due to her unique upbringing, she has an affinity for all people of different cultures, religions, languages, and socioeconomic backgrounds and celebrates difference as well as unity. She spent several years working in recreation and community services directing inner-city community centers before becoming a full-time entrepreneur. Celia's coaching and consulting firm The Ward-Wallace Group has worked with over 1,000 social enterprises, non-profit organizations, brands, coaches, and entrepreneurs. Their impressive corporate client list includes The Honest Company, Downtown Crenshaw, The Los Angeles Urban League, Promax Nutrition, Orly, SpaRitual, LuluLemon, LAFD, USC, UCLA, and the Leimert Park Village Vendors.Celia is a Huffington Post Contributor, a featured guest expert for ABC7 Eyewitness News & an awarded Top 20 Coach in Los Angeles. She is also the founder and the global community Women Empowering Women and the creator of the MBA Alternative, “Super Fly Soulful Business Program” and “The Soulful Coaching Academy” - Certified Life Coach Training school. She is also a bestselling author and a world-class keynote speaker.