WOMEN OF COLOR ENTREPRENEURS
(WOCE)
Supporting Women of Color Entrepreneurs
Access to expertise and resources propels a business forward. Peer support builds a community for change. We weave these elements together to help our entrepreneurs succeed.
In these difficult times for many small businesses, WOCE is focused on helping our entrepreneurs keep their businesses going, and emerge stronger than before.
Our entrepreneurs overcome barriers.
Here is what we are doing to help them grow their businesses:
1-on-1 Support
Our entrepreneurs work with their mentor to review business goals, strategy, and implementation. We also provide 1-on-1 technical assistance with subject matter experts.
Programming
Our entrepreneurs gather to learn from experts in a variety of fields essential to business growth, including sales, marketing, finances, HR, and pitching to investors.
Peer Support
Entrepreneurs need peer support. Our entrepreneurs meet monthly to discuss business successes, challenges, and provide feedback and support to each other.
Network Access
Access to new networks opens the door to opportunity. We make introductions to potential customers, investors, and lenders.
Entrepreneurs enter WOCE with some revenue, having begun their business with the help of an early-stage entrepreneurship program. While in our program, they build their business to reach their goals, whether it’s becoming profitable, hiring staff or growing revenue, or qualifying for a bank loan.
Building a new business isn’t easy — it usually takes years — but WOCE is right there, each step of the way.
Meet Our Entrepreneurs
Gabriela Follett
Artemisia & Acupuncture
Artemisia & Acupuncture offers East Asian Medicine-based healthcare with focus on radical healing and trauma-informed care.
Joyce Onyango
Informatix Health
Informatix Health connects quality healthcare providers with facilities at reasonable rates, bridging the employment gap.
Kalpana Kethineedi
Kay’s Curries
Fork on a Road offers Indian-inspired spice blends and vegetarian meal kits.
Marie LaFontant
Lost Art Cultured Foods
Lost Art Cultured Foods produces traditional fermented vegetables that are naturally raw, probiotic, and gluten free.
Laury Lucien
Cami Flower
Cami Flower is a socially conscious, heart-centered, black woman-owned, social equity cannabis brand that mindfully crafts the finest pre-rolls, including cannagars, blunts, and joints.
Mishell Brookins Ekunsirinde
STINA & MAE
STINA & MAE is an organic baby essentials company capturing the awe moments one baby at a time. With unique prints and GOTS certified organic baby accessories make great gifts for old and new parents alike.
Nancy Daniel
Madhrasi
Madhrasi brews authentic South Indian chai, delivering warmth and flavor.
Sika Sedzro
Uncut Lab
Uncut Lab builds custom web and mobile applications, strategically bridging technological gaps in the economic development space to foster connectivity, inclusivity, and empowered communities.
Paige Pasley
The Social Butterflies Events
The Social Butterflies Events provide corporate celebration and wedding planning, with a full-service approach from concept to execution.
Allyson Allen
The Social Butterflies Events
The Social Butterflies Events provide corporate celebration and wedding planning, with a full-service approach from concept to execution.
Hla Hla Win 360ed
360ed pioneers accessible AR tools for K-12 digital learning, transforming ESL and science education globally. Their solutions support teachers, cater to low-cost devices, reshaping education with innovative technology.
Marissa Ferola Nine Winters
Nine Winters is a bakery combining flavors from Korean and American cuisines.
Adwapa Asenso
Doudoukare
Doudoukare is a perinatal service company offering love, education, and emotional and physical support to expectant and new parents.
Elizabeth Than Soe
Designs by Elo
Designs by Elo is an interior design studio, offering both residential and boutique commercial design services.
Suman Shah
Fork on a Road
Fork on a Road offers Indian-inspired spice blends and vegetarian meal kits.
Karla Morales
Bohio Clean
Bohio Clean provides high quality cleaning to commercial and residential services by connecting clients with partners.
Sue-Ellen Anderson-Haynes
360Girls&Women
360Girls&Women provides girls and women with evidence-based, easily digestible, holistic wellness information and services to help maximize their health through the complete life-cycle.
Yin Guan
Broken Cup Teahouse
Broken Cup Teahouse specializes in single-origin, hand-crafted, full-leaf teas from China, Taiwan, and Korea, and brings people together over tea to experience beauty in a cup.
Ella Wechsler-Matthaei
Soca Fusion
Soca Fusion offers Soca dance classes in the Boston metro area for adults and kids.
Insa Elliott
Market2day
Every family deserves fresh local farm-grown food, but not everyone can make it to the farmers market. Market2day provides access to seasonal farm-fresh food for Boston-area families.
Angela Hofmann
Nüssli118°
Nüssli118° produces savory snacks and sweet treats from organic, sprouted, nutrient-dense nuts and seeds as well as weekly plant-based dinners.
Allyson Allen
Vibrant Beauty Salon
Vibrant Beauty Salon is a nail salon and spa, one of the first in Boston to offer CBD manicures and pedicures.
Madeline Cabrera
Emmaty
Emmaty is an engineering, construction and technical services firm that leverages organization processes and dynamic resources to solve clients’ most complex challenges and deliver quality, savings and scheduling efficiencies.
Tonya Winston
B.Royal Boutique
B.Royal Boutique is a curated ecommerce fashion retailer of women’s clothing.
Sabrina Vixama
Discover Vegans
Discover Vegans, home of the vegan patty, produces vegan comfort food with Haitian roots.
Smita Das
Giant Gorilla Greens
Giant Gorilla Greens is a high tech indoor farm growing superfood microgreens, to enhance your wellbeing!
Nikia Londy
Intriguing Hair
Intriguing Hair provides hair extensions and hair replacements for women in the Boston area.
Angela Sison
Conrado
Conrado is a sustainable clothing brand dedicated to upcycling deadstock fabrics and is produced in small batches by Filipino artisans in a family-run workshop in the Philippines.
Eunice Charles
Natralee
Natralee provides skincare products using all-natural ingredients produced entirely with sustainable energy.
Saron Mechale
goTeff
goTeff produces snack, cereal, and topper crisps with the superfood, teff, a grain long used by champion Ethiopian runners.
Cheryl Shao
Sympal
Sympal offers an orthodontic clear aligner system that aims to cover all case severities.
Ellana Stinson
Safo Hair
Safo Hair produces a CBD-infused hair care line that promotes healthy hair growth and scalp health.
Keisha Greaves
Girls Chronically Rock
Girls Chronically Rock supports individuals in the disability community through inspiring and adaptive tees, hoodies, accessories, and swimwear.
Maggie Allard
Community Health Design Corps
CHDC advances a connected, culturally fluent community health workforce through training, program design/development and technology solutions.
Briana Azier
Bri’s Sweet Treats
Bri’s Sweet Treats is home of the giant peanut butter cup and produces hand-crafted and branded chocolates and treats.
Fania Alvarez
Kafanaj
Kafanaj produces a variety of healthy alternatives and essential cooking products, especially bouillon, to prevent chronic health conditions.
Sarah Fox
So Zen Box
So Zen Box curates subscription boxes with lifestyle products & tools sourced from Black-owned companies.
Sharon YoungDunn
PatriciaLincoln
PatriciaLincoln is a USDA certified, organic, premium CBD brand, focusing on health and wellness.
Nadine James
Unique Café
Unique Café is a Jamaican-American cafe offering authentic food, natural juices, smoothies and more.
Manisha Sethi
WhoozCooking
WhoozCooking is a digital marketplace where busy consumers and corporations connect conveniently with amazing local food creators.
Jessica Pang
UnapologeticDesign
UnapologeticDesign is on a mission to help clients and aspiring designers find their unique path in the UI/UX Design world.
Nimisha Ganesh
GenUnity
GenUnity supports adults to drive community level change through new legislation, community-informed projects, volunteering, and advocacy.
Lena Harris
195Essential
195essential creates t-shirts with a purpose.
We are grateful for the generosity of individual donors, whose gifts (both small and large) help sustain us.
If you are interested in making a tax-exempt donation to help support our work with women of color business owners and on the larger issues of gender and racial inequity, please use the link below.
WOCE has helped me focus on my business goals and on executing my plan to grow my business. The support I've gotten from the other women in the program and my mentor and the training has been hugely helpful. I'm a big fan!
— Nikia Londy, CEO, Intriguing Hair
