Helen Lee, principal and founder of award-winning design firm Tao + Lee Associates, is passionate about stopping hate against Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities. A proud Chinese American, Lee sees it as her mission to mentor young Asian Americans.
Nalini Mahadevan’s experiences as an immigrant, mother, and woman of color deeply inform her legal practice — both as a workplace and in terms of services provided.
At not even 30, Scott Schenkelberg has had a powerful impact on diversity, equity and inclusion at a long-established St. Louis-area business and can be expected to provide continued visibility on such efforts as his career progresses.
As the first vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), Jessica Harris is a racial justice advocate and a visionary leader of DEI initiatives.
WEPOWER — a 2018 racial justice organization founded and run by CEO Charli Cooksey — trains, activates, and supports Black and Latinx folks to design equitable policies, organize to transform St. Louis’ education and economic policies and systems, and build thriving businesses that create wealth for these communities.
As housing manager for Justine Petersen, a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-certified housing counseling agency, Randen Click oversees the company’s first-time home ownership program, counseling customers on financial asset building and running the company’s appraisal gap home mortgage program.
As the first Black female hospital president for BJC, Gina Calder is working with the Missouri Hospital Association to increase recognition and networking opportunities for hospital executives of color in Missouri.
Amber Overton's work has ranged from research into the statewide scholarship program Bright Flight’s racial, geographic and economic inequalities to co-founding a scholarship program for students from Harris-Stowe State University interested in veterinary medicine.
Javia Gilliam-Sanford and Kaje Sanford enjoy world travel, including to spots like Rome, Mykonos, Cuba and London. They tell how they put those experiences into craft cocktails sold at their St. Louis mobile bar, called Pour Decisions.
Diego Abente joined Casa de Salud’s team just about a month and a half before the Covid-19 Pandemic threatened to close the organization’s doors to its more than 4,000 under or uninsured immigrant patients. Abente led Casa de Salud as it made the commitment to stay open and shift to provide telehealth to its patients.
St. Louis County Library is so much more than just a book bank. It’s a community center providing resources to enrich minds and lives and adult literacy coordinator Ricqui Brooks furthers this mission by helping adults earn their high school diplomas.
After one of its biggest competitors filed for bankruptcy, AMC CEO Adam Aron shared his opinion on Twitter, thanking retail investors and promising that AMC is in a "very, very different situation."
A St. Louis-based supplier of high-calcium lime products and technical solutions has expanded its global reach with the acquisition of a UK-based lime products supplier.
Just like provel cheese, toasted ravioli, thin-crust pizza and gooey butter cake, referring to Panera Bread cafes as "Bread Co." is a hill that many St. Louisans would die on. But those living outside city and county limits might soon be forced to change their ways.
Some café locations undergoing remodeling outside of the Lou may be making the branding switch from St. Louis Bread Company to Panera, according to a spokesperson with the Missouri-based company.
The bakery-café chain began in 1987…
Retail technology startup oneKIN hopes its selection into an incubator program staged by financial services giant Mastercard helps accelerate its growth as it gears up to release new technology for retailers. St. Louis-based oneKIN plans this fall to release a livesteaming shopping app its CEO describes as a "modern day, AI-powered QVC for small businesses."
A development official said St. Louis won a competitive search to keep and expand the factory. It and an entertainment proposal farther north "will continue to transform our riverfront, bring training and quality job opportunities to the citizens of St. Louis and invest in the revitalization of North City," he said.
St. Louis digital consultancy Perficient has made a string of M&A deals since 2020 to establish a presence in Latin America. It just announced a deal that will expand its footprint to a new country in Latin America.
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