2023 Vanden Brul Entrepreneurial Awards
Student Winner, 1st Place
Ndidi Chimah
B.S. Hospitality Management, B.S. Perspectives in Global Innovation
Ndidi is from Baltimore, MD, with a heritage from Nigeria. Through her studies at RIT, she has developed her interests and diligently set and accomplished many accomplishments toward her passion of creating safe spaces for marginalized individuals. Ndidi has been able to study abroad in over 5 countries. She has held multiple leadership positions across the student body with clubs including the Organization of African Students, and the student chapters of Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals and American Hotel Lodging Assocation to name a few. She has also been able to complete advanced research around the impact of Covid 19 on global entrepreneurship and has furthered her skillset with her startup company. Today, Ndidi is the proud founder of SowBlack which has created a web extension to help people find black-owned businesses as they are shopping online. She looks forward to continuing the development of the startup fulltime post graduation.
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