For many Latinas, the idea of opening a business feels like a dream you whisper before you’re ready to say it out loud. You imagine the storefront, the team. You imagine your community showing up for you. But you also feel the weight of growing up in families where people sacrificed everything just to survive.
So when a first-generation Mexican American woman becomes the local Owner-Operator of a brand-new Chick-fil-A in Bellflower, the story hits different. It feels like a win you can touch.
That woman is Itza León, and her journey started long before the ribbon-cutting on Rosecrans and Clark…