“Volunteering is such a great way to show love and kindness. And being able to promote that and encourage that in your community, within people, that’s something that I can definitely get behind.”
PRofiles: Mill Members
Nichelle Whitney: The Guarden
“I embed grace into each of the trainings because I believe that that is one of the answers to racial healing.”
Ansley Fender: Atlas Solutions
“I was five months pregnant when I quit working for someone else. And by the time my second daughter was born, I was making the same salary, but as a self-employed person.”
Josh Owens: Boost
“Most solutions in the education space require a lot of teacher input to manage it . . . Boost was inadvertently solving this problem: it was focused directly on the student using existing data.”
Sharlene Toney
“If it can’t be accessed by somebody who is using a screen reader or who uses a keyboard to navigate everything, then it’s not a really cool widget.”
Britain Taylor: ShuffleMe
“What I want to see is whether something that I spent 11 years building is going to benefit people in the long run. That’s something that motivates me every single day.”