By Mericel Mirabal When I first heard about this project through Professor Monica Najar, who was my professor my first semester of college, I was interested in participating in it. I knew it was the very beginning of the project and I wanted to help to get it going because I am very passionate about […]
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July 24: Chelsea Gilbert, Lehigh’s Pride Center Director
By: Mericel Mirabal Following our meeting with the Global Village team, we scheduled a meeting to sit down with Chelsea Gilbert, who is the director of the Pride Center here at Lehigh. We wanted to see if she knew of any data or research we could look into about the LGBTQ+ community following the lack […]
July 25: Lehigh Summer Expo
By: Mericel Mirabal & Lucy Zhou Lehigh University held its annual Summer Expo from 4-6 in Building C to showcase the research that students have been working on. Mountaintop Summer Experience teams along with BDSI and RARE students all featured their work, which was shown to members of the Lehigh community with a great turnout […]
Final product and overall experience working with Global Village
By: Mericel Mirabal & Lucy Zhou As mentioned in a previous post, we had the delight of working with a team of global villagers who would be residing in Lehigh for about five weeks. With their entire network of villagers and alumni villagers, they represented over 150 countries. We had asked them to collect some […]
Tyrone Russell: Chasing after his meaning in life
By: Mericel Mirabal From a young age, Tyrone Russell couldn’t keep still. Change was a constant in his life especially since he moved around to 12 different schools in 11 years. That’s why he knew he couldn’t work a regular 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. job. At 9 years old, he started cutting hair, and […]
Global Village Meets Mountaintop Summer Experience
By: Mericel Mirabal The Iacocca Global Village for Future Leaders is an intensive and immersive five-week program at Lehigh University which was created to help build leadership skills for people from all over the world. The purpose is to help you thrive by building relationships with each other, cross-cultural leadership skills, and business and entrepreneurship […]
June 18: Jenny’s Kuali
By: Mericel Mirabal Jenny’s Kuali is a locally owned Malaysian cuisine restaurant. We wanted to interview the owner Jenny Lim, who is originally from Malaysia, because she was featured as one of the many local and powerful female entrepreneurs and business owners of the Lehigh Valley this spring on Fig Bethlehem, a local magazine. We […]
June 13: Katie Suppes
By: Mericel Mirabal While our project has been focused on entrepreneurship within small businesses, we are really open to the idea of taking outside perspectives, especially those of consumers. Today, we interviewed Katie Suppes, who most recently has been working within a nonprofit organization. We were luckily able to get into contact with her through […]