4400 Richmond Rd., Warrensville Heights, OH 44128

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Yelitsa Jean-Charles, CEO and Founder of Healthy Roots Dolls 
May 1 | 5:30 p.m.
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Yelitsa Jean-Charles never had a doll that looked like her growing up. While studying illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, Jean-Charles redesigned Rapunzel as a brown girl with beautiful kinky curls. This project inspired Jean-Charles to start Healthy Roots Dolls, creating dolls and storybooks to represent the beauty of diversity and empower young girls.

In 2018, Healthy Roots Dolls won the grand prize at the American Underground’s Startup Stampede and first place in the New Voices Fund Pitch competition. Jean-Charles also participated in the 2017 Venture for America Accelerator program, and her company received the first Main Street Ventures Wendy S. Lea Female Founders Grant in 2019. In 2020, Jean-Charles raised $1.1 million, sold out three times, launched online with Target and made the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

This event is sponsored by Ogletree Deakins. 

 

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