La Patrona’s New Food Cart: The Case for Providing Technical Assistance to Street Food Vendors

La Patrona’s New Food Cart: The Case for Providing Technical Assistance to Street Food Vendors

By Karina Guzman Elizabeth, owner of La Patrona, with her new Food Cart (Photography by Jon Endow) On June 17, 2021, Elizabeth, one of our Semi’a Fund microloan clients, realized her dream of becoming a food cart owner after years of being a service worker in the food and consumer goods industries in Los Angeles…