Gene & Yolanda Camarena

The Camarena’s have exemplified the American dream of hard-working entrepreneurs making a way and a name for themselves. Gene was born in Salina, Kan. and is President/CEO of La Raza Pizza, Inc., one of the top 150 largest Hispanic-owned companies in America. Gene and Yolanda are both Harvard alumni, an excellent education that propelled them to success. Gene and Yolanda, Pizza Hut and Marriott Hotel franchisees, believe in reaching out to today’s Hispanic students by providing scholarship support through the Adelante Annual Scholarship. In 2013, the Camarena’s were inducted in the Fran Jabara Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame.