After testing more than 20 blends of lipstick personally and among volunteers, Michelle Calderon is preparing to launch the initial products of her startup, Addition Beauty. “We are the first sustainable makeup line that supports fertility and pregnancy,” says...
Ademidun Ajibade, a second-year international affairs grad student, says her co-op in Greece handling human rights cases helped her separate emotion from the law. But it also taught her about the power of compassion when dealing with people’s lives.
Molly O’Neill, AMD’18, came to Northeastern as a shy first year with no particular career path in mind, and left on the career path she least expected: business.
JET NOIRE, a startup that fuses identity with fashion, began when Mya Brown’s clothes were lost by a shipping company during the COVID-19 pandemic. Brown, a Northeastern international business graduate, began sewing new clothes for herself—and then for customers.
Aniyah Smith’s career timeline underwent a radical adjustment last year when the MBA student placed second among Northeastern entrepreneurs based on her idea to create inclusive and accessible cosmetics for a diverse population. “I did not expect to be building a...
We profile Olowoyeye as the new leader of the Husky Ambassadors and co-president of Afrospectrum, two groups committed to welcoming new and diverse students at Northeastern.
Madison Mailey, DMSB‘18, didn’t try rowing until her junior year of high school. “I was a dancer for 10 years,” she said. “It gave me a pretty good background of working hard.”
What she didn’t know at the time was that not really “fitting in” with the dance world – “I was so tall,” she said – gave her the opportunity to fall in love with rowing, and eventually become an Olympic gold medalist.
Rashida Richardson, a 2011 law school graduate who joined the Northeastern faculty as assistant professor of law and political science on July 1, was tapped to join the Office of Science and Technology Policy—a role in which she’ll help to advise President Joe Biden...
An entrepreneurship award from Northeastern is helping to revolutionize the caviar industry, says Deborah Keane, founder and chief executive officer of the groundbreaking California Caviar Company. She is committed to the development of “no-kill caviar,” which enables...
Jessica Huang, who graduated this year with a degree in entrepreneurship and marketing, used her passion for fashion and a dream to start a new business to create Mode. The app matches online shoppers with the correct clothing size based on their measurements.