Marité Pérez is a loan originator with First Community Mortgage. Previously, she worked with Latin and Haitian communities in the Dominican Republic as a Community Economic Development Advisor through the Peace Corps. She has also worked a business development manager for Aries Energy. 

Marité is a board member with Centro Hispano of East Tennessee, which promotes empowerment and civic participation of the Latino community through education and social services. 

She has a bachelor’s in international affairs/international business from Florida State University and an M.B.A. in global social sustainable enterprise from Colorado State University. Marité lives in Knoxville.