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Sara Blakely, the Founder & CEO of Spanx was Honored as the 2019 Entrepreneur of The Year!

Sara Blakely shared her experience starting and building Spanx into a worldwide brand for smart, comfortable women’s apparel and shape wear — without taking any outside investment. Ms. Blakely was selected as one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the world and is regularly featured by major media outlets. In support of her mission to empower women, she created the Spanx by Sara Blakely Foundation and signed The Giving Pledge committing to donate half her wealth to charity. Fight On Sara Blakely! ✌️

Fight on to a great semester ahead! ✌️

Life is Beautiful, so enjoy your weekend! ✌️

Global Brigades at Marshall is an amazing club that allows you and like-minded peers to travel to countries such as Panama, Honduras, and Nicaragua to consult for small businesses in rural communities, accompanied with Deloitte consults. This week long experience in either Winter or Spring Break allows you to hone your consulting skills, create strong bonds with some of the best students USC has to offer, and experience the pure culture of another country!

They’ve all worked with Trojan Marketing Group, USC’s premier full-service student-run marketing agency. Its mission is to provide students with the opportunity to gain real-world experience in the field of marketing by working with real businesses and non-profits to execute marketing campaigns. Departments include creative strategy, project management, video production, and more. TMG recruits from a variety of schools at USC in order to form the most diverse and innovative teams possible. TMG is currently recruiting new members for the upcoming year! ✌️

Welcome Back Trojans! ✌️

During Ankur's time at USC, he cofounded Troy Labs, one of SCs most active entrepreneurial student organizations, and played an integral role in launching the USC Marshall Venture Fund. Ankur is a rising senior studying Business Administration and Applied Analytics at Marshall. He grew up in the Bay Area and chose to attend college in Los Angeles because he wanted to get involved in the emerging tech scene in the city. This summer, he's interning as a Growth Intern at Poshmark, working on scaling users and transactions. Previously, he worked at an an autonomous vertical farming startup and as a venture analyst. Ankur is interested in the intersection of business, design and consumer technology. Going into his senior year, he's excited to continue to build projects with his team and help startups in the SC community! ✌️

Eesen Sivapalan is a USC Marshall and Leventhal graduate who strived for nothing short of excellence as a Trojan.

In his junior year, Eesen co-founded Mi Terro, a company whose mission is to eliminate fashion waste by creating fashion-wear made from eco-friendly materials and environmental waste. Mi Terro was a finalist in the New Venture Seed competition and their first product, a duffle suitcase made from cork and ocean plastic, generated over $14,000 in crowdfunding on Kickstarter and was recently featured on Forbes.

Finally, Eesen will be starting his full-time career at Workday, as a Functional Consultant in September, after having interned at Workday for two consecutive summers. He seeks to make his mark in the world with the same zeal and enthusiasm! ✌️

Serial social entrepreneur and founder of YEBies Daniel Kawah of USC’s MSSE is back at it again with a new business. DONO, is a social impact auction platform that connects fans to exclusive collectibles and memorabilia from their favorite athletes, entertainers, and brands to support causes around the world. The idea behind DONO was developed when a client of Daniel’s tried to sell one of his NBA awards to raise money for his non-profit organization. The player ended up actually losing money during the process and the non-profit was not able to increase revenue, awarenesses, or social impact. Daniel is now gearing up this summer to help other athletes and musicians not make the same mistake. He wants to use DONO to create a world where athletes and entertainers use the power of their celebrity to drive social impact one community at a time!

Kristen Venter is a recent Marshall graduate and former student-athlete on the USC Women's Tennis team. She strongly believes in the power of storytelling and entertainment as a means of engagement and social change. Kristen is currently producing a feature documentary showcasing wildlife conservation and female leadership initiatives in northern Kenya while also working for William Morris Endeavor (WME). Kristen has professional production, studio, network, and nonprofit experience at FX Networks, 20th Century Fox, Interscope Records, etc. Her work centers around compelling, culturally relevant content that aims to spur many long-overdue dialogues positioned at the forefront of this movement. Fight on! ✌️

Bryanna Wallace entered USC with her eyes set on conquering the world. She has taken the multitude of opportunities Marshall offers to travel abroad. As a freshman, she took part in Marshall’s LINC program, learning about globalization and international business practices through a course and a week-long trip to Tokyo. In addition, she did a fashion business and logistics internship with Kittima Milano in Italy and a semester abroad at Copenhagen Business School. On the flip side, she took a ballet class in the Kaufman School of Dance to fulfill her minor.

Over four years, Bryanna balanced classes in entrepreneurship, management and marketing with others in dance performance, technique and theory. Pursuing two such diverse courses of study, she truly earned the distinction of Renaissance Scholar. Fight On Bryanna! ✌️