SE Innovation and Ideas: Entrepreneur Edition

Entrepreneurs Amy Peterson and Gwen Jimmere kick off the new Inforum Innovation and Ideas speaker series, which highlights strong leaders and thinkers from different spheres. This event also is part of Inforum's inGAGE Role Models and Investor Series. Carol Cain, the Emmy Award-winning senior producer and host of "Michigan Matters," will moderate.

Speakers

Amy Peterson co-founded Rebel Nell in 2013 to educate and empower disadvantaged women in Detroit by employing them to make jewelry from unique local materials and providing them with other education and services. Amy spent 11 years with the Detroit Tigers' front office before becoming vice president of the Ross Initiative for Sports in Equality in November 2017. She left that post to devote her full-time attention to Rebel Nell in August. For more about Amy and Rebel Nell click here.

Gwen Jimmere took her Naturalicious natural-hair care product line from side hustle to company in 2013 after being laid off while going through a divorce. Naturalicious has since become one of the nation’s fastest-growing hair-care companies, and Gwen is the first African American woman to hold a patent for a natural-hair care product. To read more about Gwen and Naturalicious click here.

Moderator

Carol Cain  is the nine-time Emmy Award Winning Senior Producer/ Host of “Michigan Matters” — the weekly show airing 11:30 a.m. Sundays on CBS 62 focusing on politics, business, education and more. Carol also is an award-winning columnist at the Detroit Free Press, and pens stories and columns for CBS, Dome Magazine and others. For more about Carol, click here.

Inforum inGAGE™ Role Model & Investor Series is funded in part by the New Economy Initiative.