meet valentina

Valentina Gomez Bravo is an award-winning creative multi-passionate professional and businesswoman, thought leader, and change-maker dedicated to creating, transforming, and building strong, purposeful brands.

valentina Gomez Bravo is an award-winning creative multi-passionate professional and businesswoman, author, speaker, thought leader, and change-maker dedicated to creating, transforming, and building strong, purposeful brands.

She is versatility, and passion, at its fullest. She has over 18 years of experience in the advertising industry, working to build international brands like Pepsi, Red Bull, Doritos, Gatorade, and Volkswagen. Valentina is on a mission to bring big-agency brand strategies, creativity, and growth everywhere, while also creating change in the community.

She is a multicultural creative brand strategist, an educator, a speaker, and a social activist. With 6 degrees under her belt, she has founded and directed international startups and projects in the performing arts business, fashion, education, photography, food, social causes, branding, design, and digital marketing. 

Valentina LEADS Bunker +58 (Bunker58.com), a bilingual and multicultural Branding and Design Studio. She built  TexasenEspanol.com, an online business directory, magazine, and event platform created to support, empower, and recognize Hispanic businesses in Texas. She also started The Empathy League, a digital platform to teach, promote, and spread empathy worldwide, and several other projects meant to make a difference.

Creativity, Education, Empathy, and the growth, development, and advancement of women and Latinos are her leading platforms. Always striving to become a better version of herself and make change happen on any scale, Valentina volunteers and works with many organizations locally and internationally to create a lasting impact in many communities worldwide.

Valentina has been awarded 6 American Advertising Awards for her brand strategy and advertising work with Bunker +58 and received the District 10 - 2020 Mosaic Champion Award. This award recognizes individuals within Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas, whose commitment to diversity and inclusion is evident through their creative work and organization-wide initiatives. Individuals who are continuously supportive of diversity and inclusion through mentorship, leadership, and support of D&I program initiatives. most recently, she was included in the 2021 cohort of the Houston business journal’s 40 under 40 class of 2021 which celebrates young professionals who have significantly contributed to their companies, their industries, and their communities.

She is the Chair-Elect of the Board of Directors of the American Advertising Federation - Houston (AAF-Houston), AAF District 10’s DE&I Committee Chair, Marketing Chair on the Advisory Board for Power on Heels Fund, Inc and has been a college professor since 2010 teaching Creativity, Design, and Advertising in Texas with LoneStar College and back in Venezuela at the Andrés Bello Catholic University.

Valentina leads with creativity, passion, empathy, integrity, and determination, always keeping her work and life in tune with the values her family, mentors, friends, and teachers have taught her throughout life.

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