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Jaden Gems founder Carmela Chiaramonte has been designing jewelry since the age of 10. As a young girl, Carmela had a unique opportunity to learn the art of Native American Jewelry at the side of her father. Both her father and her grandfather were well known Jewelers in New Mexico on a Navajo reservation. The birth of her son Jaden coupled with Carmela’s fond memories of polishing turquoise by her father’s side inspired her to found Jaden Gems and devote herself to ‘Jewelry for a Cause.’

In the last year alone, Carmela has elevated her jewelry hobby into a business and now even more importantly, into a CAUSE – to empower those with less means to rise above and find stability and a means for income.

Carmela works passionately towards this purpose as she’s seen first hand the effects that feeling capable and self-sufficient has on a person. Using her hobby of making jewelry, Carmela gave herself a purpose and a way to survive. Carmela chose to use her skills to improve her life and now works tenaciously to see that other struggling women, single parents and teens have the same opportunity to rise up to success! Carmela is a first generation college student with an Associates of Arts Degree in Graphic Design at Mount St Marys College in Los Angeles Carmela is a full-time college student taking classes on the weekend to finish her degree in Liberal Arts with an emphasis in Social Work.

Partnering with local battered women’s shelters and teen support groups, Carmela teaches teens jewelry making as a skill. In doing so, she empowers these teens to realize that they can always have an income as long as they continue to develop their skills (whatever their passion might be). In fact, her Business in a Box kit takes that skill set to the next level for teens ready to make their hobby a business.