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#77 Professor Brian Berkey: Teaching Moral Demandingness and Obligations of Justice at Wharton
Professor Brian Berkey: Teaching Moral Demandingness and Obligations of Justice at Wharton CompanyRoots recently interviewed Professor Brian Berkey– an Assistant Professor of Business Ethics and Legal Studies at the Wharton School, with a focus on moral and political philosophy. Professor Berkey’s work deals with moral demandingness, individual and corporation obligations…
Read More »#55 Repro-Emergency Hotline: A Conversation with Founder Michyah Thomas
For this edition of CompanyRoots, we had the opportunity to conduct an interview with Michyah Thomas of Hampton University in Virginia. Thomas’ startup focuses on reproductive rights and aims to provide college students at Hampton University with different types of contraceptives. The start-up, Repro-Emergency Hotline, launched in late March of…
Read More »#54 WilminGo: A Golf Cart Taxi Service in Wilmington, Delaware
Information provided by Markos Zerefos, an Operator of WilminGo In the modern economy, transportation has played an increasingly large role. From Uber to Amazon, creative entrepreneurs from around the country have revolutionized the way people move. WilminGo is a Wilmington, Delaware based startup that aims to make city travel more…
Read More »#53 5 Startups that are Paving the Future
Designing, launching, and running your own business might seem like a daunting task for the average individual, but it’s not for this group of highly-motivated teen entrepreneurs that recently competed in the Diamond Challenge Summit 2019. Every year, Horn Entrepreneurship, the creative engine for entrepreneurship education and advancement created by…
Read More »#52 Newark, Delaware’s Main Street Gets a New Addition
A fruity, emerging food trend: the smoothie bowl. Composed of a blended fruit-veggie base topped with sliced fruit and granola, cafes specializing in these frozen treats seem to be materializing at every turn. One of Newark, Delaware’s newest smoothie bowl vendors is Frutta Bowls. In order to get more information…
Read More »#51 Q&A With The Aquilae Company
Drones are one of the most promising and rapidly growing technologies of the modern age. Recently we got the opportunity to interview Nick Ulizio, CEO of Aquilae, a company founded by high schoolers at the Charter School of Wilmington who are seizing the potential of drones in cinematography. What is…
Read More »#50 Delaware Korean School: Spreading Awareness about Korean Language and Culture
One of the major leaders in spreading Korean language and culture in Delaware is the Delaware Korean School. Founded in 1986 by the Delaware Korean community leaders, the Delaware Korean School has celebrated more than thirty years of teaching Korean language, culture, and history, among other subjects, to hundreds of…
Read More »#49 Wilmington Green Box: Providing Youth With Entrepreneurial Skills And Helping The Hungry
This past month, I had the opportunity to conduct an interview with Jason Aviles, the project director of Wilmington Green Box located in Delaware. Wilmington Green Box is a nonprofit organization that launched in 2016 which aims to provide at-risk youth with entrepreneurial skills, as well as provide produce and…
Read More »#48 Q&A With Education Reimagined
Recently, we got the chance to interview and complete a Q&A with Paul Haluszczak, the digital manager for a new nonprofit called Education Reimagined. Focused on reforming the education sector by implementing “learner-centered education”, we were able to learn all about the story behind this nonprofit and the work that…
Read More »#47 Dual School: Empowering Students & Educators To Innovate
With the recent rise to youth empowerment and youth-led organizations, Dual School has emerged as a leading program in the Delaware community to help teens find their passions and create innovative solutions to problems that can create lasting impacts on the world. Originally funded by Paul McConnell, a Wilmington real…
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