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2024 Innovator Award Winners Darrel Schreiner and Dominique Schreiner | Cake Denim

2024 Innovator Award Winners Darrel Schreiner and Dominique Schreiner | Cake Denim

Sep 12, 2024 | Articles, Entrepreneurship, Innovator Awards, News and Stories

Sisters Darrel Schreiner and Dominique Schreiner are co-founders and co-CEOs of Cake Denim, a sustainable denim brand focused on celebrating all bodies.

2024 Innovator Award Winner Linh Dinh | ATURE

2024 Innovator Award Winner Linh Dinh | ATURE

Sep 12, 2024 | Articles, Entrepreneurship, Innovator Awards, News and Stories

Linh Dinh founded ATURE, a business platform that connect small- and medium-sized producers in rural Vietnam with consumers in the U.S.

2024 Innovator Award Winner Emily Zeledon | Las Mujercitas

2024 Innovator Award Winner Emily Zeledon | Las Mujercitas

Sep 12, 2024 | Articles, Entrepreneurship, Innovator Awards, News and Stories

With her venture, Las Mujercitas, Emily Zeledon aims to empower women growers and other small farmers in Nicaragua.

2024 Innovator Award Winner Kerrian Johnson | Fruit Juice Studio

2024 Innovator Award Winner Kerrian Johnson | Fruit Juice Studio

Sep 11, 2024 | Articles, Entrepreneurship, Innovator Awards, News and Stories

Kerrian Johnson is boosting small businesses through the creative design and consulting firm Fruit Juice Studio, which she co-founded with a longtime friend.

Inspired by her brother, this Northeastern engineering student is trying to invent a device that can predict seizures

Inspired by her brother, this Northeastern engineering student is trying to invent a device that can predict seizures

Sep 5, 2024 | Articles, Entrepreneurship, Featured Article, Innovator Awards, News and Stories

Muskaan “Mukki” Gill has seen her brother injured many times when his epileptic seizures strike without warning. So she’s trying to see if there’s a way to predict when a seizure is coming.

2024 Innovator Award Winner Violetta Skittidi | Formulaw

2024 Innovator Award Winner Violetta Skittidi | Formulaw

Sep 5, 2024 | Articles, Entrepreneurship, Innovator Awards, News and Stories

As a paralegal intern, Violetta Skittidi saw firsthand how legal documents can pile up. So, she created Formulaw, an AI-driven platform to help companies make sense of their documents.

2024 Innovator Award Winner Hayley Oleksiak | Open Space Sandbox

2024 Innovator Award Winner Hayley Oleksiak | Open Space Sandbox

Sep 5, 2024 | Articles, Entrepreneurship, Innovator Awards, News and Stories

With Open Space Sandbox, Hayley Oleksiak is empowering citizens to build out their own vision for green spaces in their communities.

Double Husky Kadesh Simms Conroy Innovates with Wishing Well, a Community-Centric Finance App for Social Empowerment

Double Husky Kadesh Simms Conroy Innovates with Wishing Well, a Community-Centric Finance App for Social Empowerment

Aug 30, 2024 | Articles, Diversity and Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Featured Article, Innovator Awards, News and Stories

Wishing Well is a peer-to-peer payment digital wallet that allows users to hold and save their money together as a group in individual “wells” and to use that money to support community goals, individual expenses and purchases.

Northeastern Graduate Becky Mashàido is Revolutionizing the Beauty Industry with AI-Powered Solutions for Women of Color

Northeastern Graduate Becky Mashàido is Revolutionizing the Beauty Industry with AI-Powered Solutions for Women of Color

Aug 30, 2024 | Articles, Diversity and Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Featured Article, Innovator Awards, News and Stories

Mashàido’s business venture, KiAsili Naturals, is using science and artificial intelligence to reimagine the future of an inclusive beauty industry.

This Northeastern Graduate is Using Her Music Industry Experience to Encourage Young People to Vote

This Northeastern Graduate is Using Her Music Industry Experience to Encourage Young People to Vote

Aug 15, 2024 | Art and Music, Articles, Entrepreneurship, Featured Article, Innovator Awards, News and Stories

2021 Innovator Awards recipient Emily White started #iVoted to increase young voter turnout. The venture, which grants concert access to fans that show a selfie demonstrating their civic engagement, raised the 2020 election turnout an estimated 7.2% relative to 2016. 

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