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 Seventh Cohort
Aminah Namagembe
Prime Care Associates Inc.
Prime Care Associates Inc provides non-medical home care for older adults and individuals with disabilities, including 24-hour care, personal care, and companionship services that support independent living at home. Through Prime Care Mobility & Transport, they also offer non-emergency transportation for medical appointments and community needs across Greater Boston.
Ammy Lowney
JuicyGreens
JuicyGreens is a family-owned business that provides a variety of nutritious and delicious foods in an eco-friendly way.
Arlene Baldwin
Lace Layer
Lace Layer is a beauty brand creating high-performance lace wig essentials, from waterproof lace glue and melting sprays to skin protectants, tint, and removers, designed for flawless, natural wig installs that last. Founded by Arlene Baldwin, the brand serves tens of thousands of customers annually and is trusted by everyday wearers and celebrity stylists alike.
Emilia Montero
Art Cooks Meals
Art Cooks is a Boston-based prepared meals company creating artisan Latin fusion recipes made with local ingredients. We offer 100% gluten free fresh and frozen meals for busy families and workplaces, making healthy, culturally inspired food convenient and accessible.
Dr. Lucy Lomas
Lucy
LUCY Health supports individuals and organizations through holistic women’s health care, wellness education, and strategic guidance across physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
Maria Vasco
Uvida Shop
Uvida is Boston’s first zero-waste, eco-friendly store, encouraging others to live more eco-conscious lives.
Dr. Sheri-ann McLean-Williams
McLean Coaching and Consulting
McLean Coaching & Consulting helps nonprofits and small businesses strengthen leadership, communication, and workplace culture through coaching, workshops, and team development tools like DISC and The Leadership Game.
Sohini Mazumdar
Erudite Co
Erudite Co. supports founders in the biotech and deep tech space by refining business models and pitches, building investor-ready narratives and market strategies, navigating commercialization and exit pathways, and serving as a trusted sounding board for critical decisions.
Swarna Ramdass
Moylings
A lifestyle tea brand offering organic, farm-sourced teas hand-blended in Stoneham, MA. Our unique “Tea & Tale” collection creates a calming multisensory experience — thoughtfully crafted tea blends paired with original stories to enjoy while you sip.
Teo Sorce
Le Petit Salon Curl Concept
The Curl Concept Salon helps curly girls love and grow their hair through high-quality services.
Meet Our Sixth Cohort
Cathy Waiswa
Love Balungi
Love Balungi is a natural beauty company creating a range of products that are gentle on sensitive skin.
Cvic Innocent
Frankenbuild Ventures
Frankenbuild Ventures, f(v), is a venture capital firm investing in companies building hardtech, dual-use technologies capable of functioning in extreme environments, including the unique & challenging demands facing space tech, ocean tech, information tech, mining tech, agritech, robotics, nanofabrication, semiconductors, human-machine interface tech, and more.
Elaine Chow
ChopValue Boston
ChopValue engineers recycled chopsticks into a high performance composite to manufacture carbon negative furniture solutions for your business or home.
Karleen Porcena
Fit Fête
Fit Fête promotes healthy lifestyles in a culturally relevant way and offers solidarity for those on similar journeys.
Leslie Forde
Mom’s Hierarchy of Needs
Unique among Mom blogs, Mom’s Hierarchy of Needs is dedicated to helping you make space for self-care and growth. We provide Moms with products, research, and community to reclaim time from the never-done list for their wellbeing.
Liliana Martins
JBE Counseling
With Just Be Counseling, clients can expect a compassionate and personalized approach that addresses their unique needs, creating a safe space for open dialogue and personal growth. Together, we'll work towards improved well-being and a more fulfilling life.
Mabel De Mota
De Mota Cleans
DeMota Cleaning Services is a professional cleaning company that specializes in residential and commercial cleaning services.
Maria Storms
MVS Welding
We strive for an excellent reputation while providing high-quality construction in a manner that is safe, on-time, and within budget.
Rokeya Chowdhury
Shanti Boston
At Shanti, be transported to a peaceful place. Find more than Indian cuisine, and indulge in a Bangladeshi style cooking known as Bhuna.
Previous Cohorts
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Shonté Davidson
Better Together Energy
BT2 Energy provides end to end consulting and turnkey energy installation services with a specific focus on transportation electrification.
Silpa Pande
Melt in Your Mouth
Melt in Your Mouth offers many choices including gluten-free, vegan, dairy-free, egg less, and nut-free desserts.
Yvette Philip
Cultivated Accounting
Cultivated Accounting provides partnering with nonprofit organizations and small businesses and their leaders to provide the financial expertise and guidance essential for their long-term success.
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
