ana recio harvey is a mexican translation entrepreneur and government economic activist who is the president and ceo of the greater washington hispanic chamber of commerce (gwhcc). part of her job working in the united states government involves coordinating and implementing initiatives for the small business administration (sba) in washington to benefit small, struggling, women-owned businesses, by offering them federal government contract awards. in january 2015 she was appointed acting director of the district of columbia department of small and local business development (dslbd). harvey is the founder of the multilingual communications company syntaxis, which translates in 25 languages.