As founder and CEO of luxury athletic-wear company Alala, Denise Lee has built a multi-million-dollar business By Pat Olsen Denise Lee funded her company at age 31 with help from friends and family. Finding success producing athleisure apparel that is at once stylish, comfortable, and high performance was...
DEI and cultural competency consultant Alisa Kolodizner on tackling diversity and inclusion in these challenging times By Ijeoma S. Nwatu For Alisa Kolodizner, everything comes down to community. A self-described collaborator and active communicator, Kolodizner settled in the United States as a refugee from Ukraine. She is now...
Lawyer-turned-entrepreneur Sylvana Sinha marries tech with humanity to bring top-quality care to the country of her roots By Kimberly Olson While Sylvana Sinha’s family was visiting Bangladesh for the wedding of a relative, her mother needed an emergency appendectomy. Her mother was being treated at one of the...
As founder and CEO of biotech firm SiNON Nano Sciences, Afreen Allam aims to revolutionize treatment for neurological conditions By Anna Rappel [caption id="attachment_13551" align="alignleft" width="450"] Courtesy of Durham Magazine[/caption] When Afreen Allam and her sisters were kids, they loved using their imaginations to concoct potions in the...
Longtime corporate executive Lourdes Mola forged her own path—and is thrilled with the results As the founder of a firm bearing her name, Lourdes Mola delivers innovative, influential, and powerful strategies to help businesses grow. Prior to launching Lourdes Mola Solutions, she served in leadership positions for 25...
Sheryl Jones, one of the few Black jewelers in Manhattan’s Diamond District, is making sure she won’t be one of the last By Lydia T. Blanco Ninety-five percent of diamond and gemstone businesses are third- and fourth-generation family owned, a world largely closed to outsiders. That didn’t deter...
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