By: Lucy Zhou One of our main goals for this project is to increase people’s exposure to open conversations about inclusivity and to raise awareness of best practices that can be adopted for businesses and entrepreneurs. We wanted to achieve this goal through a workshop designed to get people from all different backgrounds with differing […]
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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 […]
July 9: Lehigh alumnus Norm Rumpf
By: Lucy Zhou We were fortunate enough to meet and talk with Norm Rumpf, who actually graduated Lehigh in 1959 with an engineering degree. He is interested in learning more about mountaintop projects, but he also wants to share his own thoughts and get us thinking about different paths we could take and different questions […]
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 20: Entrepreneur Networking and Business Expo
By: Lucy Zhou The Community Action Development Corporation of Bethlehem (CADCB) hosted a networking event at Northampton Community College Fowler SouthSide Center. We wanted to attend to talk to and learn more about more businesses started by entrepreneurs in the area. The expo would also give us an opportunity to introduce ourselves and our project […]
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 18: Domaci
By: Lucy Zhou Domaci is a furniture store owned by Warren Clark and his husband Derrick. We really wanted to get their perspective and experience starting their business in the South Side, especially as part of the LGBTQ+ community. We had talked to female entrepreneurs and business owners of color, but we were lacking representation […]
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 […]