Melissa Bartow
Bay Area Born, San Diego Educated, Silicon Valley tested, and now San Diego THRIVING. 7 years ago UC San Diego brought me to this amazing beach town, where I captained the Women’s water polo team. Three NCAA Division I championship appearances later, I helped turn the program into a respected national competitor. Read more>>
Colin Jemmott
The San Diego Collaborative Arts Project is a 501(c)3 nonprofit supporting the San Diego Burning Man community. SDCAP’s two main projects are YOUtopia, the San Diego Regional Burning Man event and Colab, a meeting and art build warehouse in Mission Valley. Read more>>
Nathan Church
I have always been active and involved in sports. I played soccer mostly growing up and including high school. I ran track as well. I always loved being in shape and competing in sports. I also loved martial arts but never had the finances to take it or really the time away from soccer. Read more>>
Catherine Segura
In 2012 I was attending Southwestern College for Digital Photography and my friend, Fernando, was taking “History of Photography” course and got to witness a demonstration of the Wet Plate Collodion Process. He told me all about about it and soon I became interested in wanting to hear more about it. Read more>>
Sarah Baecher
Splashes of Hope was founded in 1996 by Heather Buggée in reaction to her own experience in typical, dreary medical settings. During her art school years, Heather had a friend that was afflicted with Hodgkin’s Disease and was an inpatient in a local hospital. Heather and her friend often discussed ways to improve the hospital’s aesthetics. Read more>>
Jacqueline Madory
I began selling antiques, in Southern California, almost 30 years ago, specializing in Victorian items, including jewelry, clothing, hats and accessories. A friend introduced us to the Steampunk Community. Steampunk is a genre of science fiction that has a historical setting. Read more>>
Julie Marie Christensen
Protective Diet’s original educational platform grew from local classrooms to a global interactive live webcast classroom format. This transition happened before students were familiar with online classrooms. The available technology could not support our rapidly growing active classroom. Read more>>
Katie Farina
I grew up surrounded by food. By day, I helped my parents with their business selling fresh pasta at local farmers’ markets and by night, I assisted my dad in the kitchen with endless recipe testing. Eventually my parents took their love of food and turned it into a successful restaurant. Read more>>
Lauren Rennie
After MANY years of working in the corporate world and feeling very unfulfilled and burnt out, I left my job and never looked back. I knew that was not what I was meant to be doing and although it paid extremely well, it was literally sucking the life out of me. Read more>>
Jenna Skora
When I became a mom almost 9 years ago, I was the first out of all my friends to have a tiny human. There weren’t a lot of resources out there to turn to when I was navigating my newly found #momlife and it was lonely and hard. Fast forward to now- where I really strive to provide that community resource that our moms can turn to, not only online but offline as well. Read more>>
Daniel Easley
I began working for another company in San Diego, and realized that I can also become an entrepreneur. My goal was to learn about business by being in business so I can reinvest my profit into rental properties. This desire started because my wife and I had to wait a long time for our marriage visa approval. Read more>>
