Jenn Scalia grew up in south New Jersey as an introverted overachiever, which made making connections difficult when she attended college at Temple University. Social media changed that, and Jenn personally took to the platforms of the time (think MySpace). She was...
Ariel Belgrave and her three siblings learned about entrepreneurship courtesy of 5-cent cans. Their parents encouraged them to collect the refundable cans, learn how to count how much they’d make from them, enroll others in the family into their business and...
Amira Rahim considers herself an accidental entrepreneur. As a visual artist, she didn’t think about selling her work at first, but shared it often on social media. All of that changed when she decided to “make the ask” for a sale,...
New Jersey native Kailei Carr always knew that she was a multi-passionate with a wide range of interests — with aspirations to be a doctor, a hairdresser and an oil painter when she was just five years old. By the time she reached college, Kailei felt pulled to...
For Oakland, California, native Latham Thomas, entrepreneurship was never the easy choice, but it was the only choice. Even in college at Columbia University, she knew in her spirit that she didn’t want to work at a traditional job. ...