is the creator and owner of the Beautiful Baller™ brand and magazine concept, which promotes the social relevance and positive imagery of females in professional sports and entertainment, while highlighting their influence of trends in beauty and fashion. She developed the Beautiful Baller™ Brand to be an expression of female empowerment, and created the magazine to provide a platform for innovative online female sports and entertainment marketing and exposure.

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Maria is a financial management and business operations professional, with more than 20 years of experience in finance in the corporate, nonprofit and government sectors of business. In addition to creating Beautiful Baller, she currently has three blog/magazine pages on Facebook.com gaining momentum: The Southern Gurl™, The Money Clip™, and Crown&Glory™. She is also the owner of Superior Notary Solutions Incorporated, which offers enterprise, businesses and individuals a comprehensive line of outsourced notary, financial, and legal support services. She holds a Bachelor of Science Finance degree from The University of Alabama at Birmingham, and is currently pursuing a Master of Science Entertainment Business degree from Full Sail University.

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Maria is a native of Birmingham, AL and currently resides in Dallas, TX with her husband and children.