Meet the Winners
Spring 2020
Bridgett Gordon-Billingsley
Fit-Tritionist LLC
I plan to operate a pop up fitness business, Pulse and Tap, with a focus on North County. I plan to educate, entertain, motivate and inspire women by teaching Pound fitness, Barre Intensity and Balletone.
Shaunessi Tucker
Skin Deep Hygienic Care
Skin Deep Hygienic Care provides hygiene and skin care products that are formulated with 100% non-toxic and cruelty-free ingredients, which help lesson exposure to hazardous chemicals found in conventional daily essentials.
Andrea Woods
Doggi O’s Dog Treats
Doggi O’s is an e-commerce store that offers all natural, immensely delicious, dog treats that will keep your fur friend, of any size, healthy, strong, and happy.
Cynthia Chapple
Black Girls Do STEM
Black Girls Do STEM is an organization founded to trigger curiosity through deliberate education, access and opportunity in STEM in the minds of black girls in every community. Our STEM Saturday Academy community based program, after-school programming and mentor network powers our efforts to diversify innovation.
Darnell Brown
Simply Foster
Simply Foster’s apps will support caseworkers
by speeding up child placement and support foster providers by using opt-in surveys and targeted questions so professionals can intervene promptly.
Erica King
Shorty Mix Gourmet Cookies LLC
Shorty Mix Gourmet Cookies LLC uses craved ingredients to explore celebrated flavors from various cultures, offering a treat on your life’s adventure.
Gabrielle Burks
FACTS *For your unsophisticated game nights
Facts – for your unsophisticated game nights
An entertaining and thought-provoking game rooted in Black American conversation.
Latitia Winfield Hollins & Denise Winfield-Hollins
Melanin Luv LLC
A social interactive drinking game that provides 15 categories which help to liven up any event and create lasting memories.
Naisha Bailey
YoSnap Photo Booth & Video
YoSnap Photo Booth and Photography is a local company serving St. Louis, MO and surrounding areas. Our sole purpose is to create photographic memories that last forever.
Paris Rollins
Picky Eaterz
Paris Rollins is the founder of the company Picky Eaterz. Her company focuses on picky eater prevention in children by attacking it at the root in childhood. Picky Eaterz currently caters 1000’s of different variety kid meals to school and has recently expanded into prenatal and lactation products . Her products focuses on flavoring the taste palates of children while their still in the womb and while nursing, to build a relationship with flavors other than sweets . By doing so , this will diversify children’s taste preferences way before they are introduced to their first spoon of Baby food. Allowing them to be acceptant of and enjoy more bitter and bland flavors like veggies and legumes !
