Meet the Winners
Spring 2022
Adjo Honsou
TRIBE228
Growing up in Togo, my love of fashion was shaped by the daily lives of so many Africans. At Tribe228, my team of artisans and I strive to curate African fashion for the modern, elegant women.
With Tribe228 I incorporate the authenticity of African culture into many of my designs by embracing the influence of my culture. To experience Tribe228 is to feel the essence of what Africa means to me. I want to present the world with this notion that African prints belongs.
Angela Meyer
Angie Meyer Coaching LLC
Angie Meyer is a teacher and career coach. She has been an advocate in public education and human services for 12 years. As a teen career coach, she uses holistic coaching and restorative practices to support her clients.
Angie Meyer Coaching helps older teenagers and young adults connect to a purposeful career path by uncovering their authentic skills, needs, and passions; so they can secure their dream job.
Brian Barlay
Barlay Consulting
Brian Barlay - founder of Barlay Consulting - was born and raised in the rocky mountains at the heart of Freetown, Sierra Leone. He is a Social Scientist and an Acculturation Coach.
Barlay Consulting is a firm that focusses on acculturation coaching, organization development consulting and diversity, equity and inclusion workshops.
Brishae' Turner
Building on Direction
Brishae' holds a master’s degree in social work and holds a career in a Saint Louis High School as a high school social worker. Building on Direction is ran by Brishae' and her husband Dawon. We have great volunteers that help the organization as well.
Brishae' plans for Building on Direction is to have a youth center for youth in the Saint Louis area. B.O.N.D will be an organization that help meet the underlying and surface level needs of the children and families in Saint Louis area.
Brittney N. Cotton
Speak Wonders LLC
Founded by University City, Mo native and Speech Language Pathologist with over 10 years of
experience. Our providers all come from different backgrounds but share the same vision to
positively impact the lives we serve.
Mobile speech therapy practice servicing children and adults via telehealth and in-home
services. Our culturally diverse pathologists deliver equitable, high quality, evidence-based
therapy to ALL families.
Chaneyll Anderson
C5 Events & Décor
Chaneyll Anderson is the owner of C5 Events & Décor, a full-service event planning & décor company, founded in 2021. After planning, decorating, and coordinating her own wedding in 2013, she discovered her love for event planning and decorating. That is when she decided to turn it into a fulfilling career.
C5 Events & Décor specializes in creating a unique environment that is tailored to fit the
individual needs of its clients. With her deep passion for design & décor Chaneyll’s #1 goal
is to help her clientele bring their vision to life.
Julliette S Caldwell
Code Red Dance
Julliette Caldwell Founder of Code Red Dance Elite, where we train the youth in all dance genres, while building agility and confidence. We also motivate self love, provide professional training in a judge free setting. Building bonds & creating memories is what we thrive for.
Leslie Hernandez
De Mi Madre Aprendi
De Mi Madre Aprendi is a result of a combination of my connection to my Latin roots and my passion for helping people.
De Mi Madre Aprendi has created a blending spices product that maximizes the authentic Latin Flavor with natural ingredients, no preservatives or added salt.
Lev Guter
Find Why Learning, LLC
With nearly a decade of classroom teaching experience, Lev is dedicated to making math human. He is a Teach For America alum, former grassroots organizer, J.D. and M.Ed.
Find Why Learning LLC is a subscription service that motivates students to engage in their math classes through a library of online streaming videos addressing the question “why do we need to know this?”
Olivia R Davis
Olivia Rae Design Academy
Our team is dedicated to ensuring everyone receives the best sewing education to ensure they continue the craft for therapeutic and academic benefits.
Non- profit dedicated to teaching sewing skills to children and adults in virtual and in person classes.
Orly Peters
HOME AWAY FOOD, LLC
Orly is an Israeli lawyer who arrived in the US to STL in 2015 with her husband and three kids. She’s passionate about food, learning new things and helping others.
Orly creates a platform of “Home made food”, for a community of connecting like minded people who want to share around food, buy, sell and be inspired by each other.
Saberra Massey-Hill
Massey Mobile Phlebotomy Service LLC.
Saberra Massey is the visionary behind Massey Moile Phlebotomy Service.A
seasoned health care professional with a variety of accomplishments to her credit.
Saberra received her certification from St Louis School of Phlebotomy.
Over the course of her career, Saberra Massey has been a major driving force in creating and implementing current practices that has positively impacted the clients she has served and the organizations that she has represented.
Stephanie Acon
Finally Safe LLC
Stephanie Acon comes from a legal background, and is currently a high-risk youth advocate and mentor, and the Founder and Executive Director of Finally Safe.
Finally Safe is new initiative in St. Louis City that provides education and reentry services to critically at-risk youth who struggle with illiteracy and behavioral infractions.
