March 29, 2024

Brooklyn

From Brooklyn to Elkin, UNCSA alumni forge their personal entrepreneurial paths

As a young female in Brooklyn, New York, alumna Dwana Smallwood knew she was a dancer,
but she under no circumstances dreamed she would turn out to be a company owner. “The language I converse is
dance,” says the dancer, choreographer and educator who established Dwana Smallwood Performing
Arts Middle in the community where by she grew up. The word “entrepreneur” didn’t
register, even as she built and sewed T- shirts, produced customized dolls, and braided
hair to pay for dance lessons.

T. Oliver “Tim” Reid (B.M. Music ’93) was basically born executing in Gastonia, North Carolina. While at UNCSA,

Brooklyn Park council thinking about little enterprise middle at Northwind Plaza | Brooklyn Park

The Brooklyn Park Town Council gave the go-in advance to town staff May well 17 to negotiate the order of the Northwind Plaza strip shopping mall at 7970 Brooklyn Blvd and assemble a compact-small business heart in the vacant Xperience Conditioning house.

The council, performing as the Financial Enhancement Authority, arrived to the consensus that acquiring the internet site for the challenge would be favorable to leasing it. Operational plans are even now in the development phases for the compact-organization incubation space, but it is prepared to provide very affordable workplace and conference place for the city’s budding enterprises and