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UMKC ★  Engagement Month

The Little Desk: Conversations on Entrepreneurship, NIGHT FIVE- INTENTIONALITY THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP

The Little Desk, the latest collaboration from UMKC, The Porter House KC, and KCSourceLink, provides insights and lessons learned from the rising stars in Kansas City’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.

ended (October 30, 2023)
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The Little Desk: Conversations on Entrepreneurship, NIGHT FIVE- INTENTIONALITY THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Three of the most influential entrepreneurial support organizations in Kansas City have teamed up to deliver The Little Desk, a new five-part series focused on entrepreneurship. You are invited to join us each Monday in October as we explore a new topic with the small business owners, creatives, and visionaries shaping today's entrepreneurial landscape in the Kansas City Region. 

Join us for night five as we discuss intentionality through entrepreneurship with Shanita McAffee-Bryant, Executive Director/Founder of The Prospect, and Elliott Ivory, Co-Founder of Vine Street Brewing.

Chef Shanita is a Kansas City native and a civic-minded chef eager to transform the lives of community members on the Eastside neighborhoods through food-based solutions: nutrition education, kitchen culinary training, and culinary entrepreneurship.

 In 2019, Shanita founded The Prospect KC, a social enterprise designed to address systemic inequities caused by food apartheid, including food insecurity, unemployment, and housing instability, by providing workforce development, case management, skill management, financial and nutrition education, childcare, and job training. 

Elliott Ivory: Elliott Ivory is a co-founder and head brewer at Vine Street Brewing Co. Before joining the Vine Street team, he worked as a project manager at Honeywell and has been home brewing for several years under the name Wiz Brewing. Located in the heart of Kansas City, Vine Street Brewing emerged as Missouri's first black-owned brewery.

Date

  
ended (October 30, 2023)

Contact

Nate Addington, UMKC Director of Community Engagement and Outreach
  naddington@umkc.edu

Partners

Michael Carmona, KCSourceLink Senior Director of Regional Ecosystem Development
  michael.carmona@umkc.edu
Miranda Schultz, Porter House KC Director of Operations
  mschultz@theporterhousekc.com

Location

  2010 Vine St, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA

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