My Home Stars founder, Joel Baraka, grew up in Uganda’s Kyangwali refugee camp, where he spent most of his childhood and received his early education. For many of his peers, schooling serves as a source …
Consumer Products
Erin Vranas
Business Owner Erin Vranas’ innovative spirit can be attributed to her commitment to constant learning. Being an obsessive, lifelong learner drives her to remain a forever student. It is also this trait that pushed Erin …
Yips Snacks
Happy Wellness
Hello! Loom
Mount Horeb Hemp
Boosted Chews
Paul Mross
Yoga is among the most ancient practices in the world of holistic health and wellness. That’s why the innovation embodied in the Happ:y Mat (an adaptation of a traditional yoga mat for use in clinical …
Kattia Jiménez
2018 was a year of change for Kattia Jiménez—it’s the year she left her full-time travel position with the Centers for Disease Control and began her new academic appointment at UW–Madison’s All of Us Research …
Kit Chow and Aditya Singh-Parihar
UPDATE: Where are they now? Boosted Chews has ceased its operations, but both founders have found new innovations to tackle: Kit Chow is a Project Manager at RehabPath, a Madison-based startup that helps make the …