Tokunbo Koiki, creator of her own West African supper club Tokunbo’s Kitchen, considers herself an accidental entrepreneur. In fact, the Londoner, whose family hails from Nigeria, actually didn’t even like cooking until just a few years ago! Today, Tokunbo...
Growing up in Queens, New York, Stephanie Rance always questioned why things were believed to be “this way” instead of “that way,” and why she couldn’t create something different. Later, throughout her career in the music industry...
Ophira Edut and her identical twin sister, Tali, have been partners in entrepreneurship from a very young age. Since they were seven years old, the two have had a calligraphy business at their elementary school and a paper route in their Detroit neighborhood. They are...
Trey Anthony, a proud Jamaican woman living in Canada, grew up surrounded by side hustles, witnessing her mother, grandmother and aunt doing everything from reading tea leaves to cutting hair. This helped Trey understand the importance of women having agency in...
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...