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
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 […]
June 7: Roasted and Lit
By: Lucy Zhou We first visited Roasted for brunch because one of the three owners, Shelli Topping, is a female entrepreneur who represents the successful and strong sector of business owners that are women. After our meal, we were lucky enough to be able to talk with her and ask her about her journey owning […]